During flight training, your knowledge of taxi routes, hold-short lines, and basic taxi procedures at your home airport will become ingrained in your operating procedures. But what happens when you fly to an unfamiliar towered airport? There are some 600 airports that have an operating air traffic control tower, and you will visit one during your training curriculum.
Miscommunication and unfamiliarity with the runway environment have led to unintended runway incursions. Is this happening because pilots don’t want to fess up they’ve lost their way after reading back the taxi clearance? Or, is it just plain ignorance?
Whatever the case may be, Ask ATC: Progressive Taxi clears up the general issues controllers face and how they’d like you to respond and react. See the video and hear the controller explain how you can navigate the taxiway without incurring the wrath of your tower controller. Ask ATC is sponsored by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
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