Expired CTOT during taxi

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Originally Posted by whitelighter

1 minute after the CTOT, I’d just forget how to count or accidentally mark the strip airborne...

Would you feel any guilt if an area or approach controller had an overload because of you disregarded the CTOT?

CTOTs are there for a reason. Nobody likes them, but they aren’t put in place arbitrarily. They primarily protect ATCO workload, which in turn protects pilots, and the flying general public.