Coming soon: New taxi procedures
From AOPA News
By AOPA Air Safety Foundation staff
via Coming soon: New taxi procedures
Beginning June 30, air traffic controllers will be required to issue specific runway crossing instructions for each runway to be crossed. Controllers will no longer use the familiar “taxi to runway XX” phraseology, which currently allows an aircraft to cross all runways intersecting its route to the departure runway. The elimination of the “taxi to” phrase will apply only to departing aircraft. Arriving aircraft will still hear the phrase “taxi to” when instructed to taxi to the gate or ramp; however, controllers in these situations still will be required to issue specific crossing instructions for each runway encountered on the taxi route.i
After the change is enacted on June 30, taxi instructions will start with the assigned runway, then specify the taxi route and any initial runway crossing and/or hold short instructions. For example: “Cessna 4GA, Runway 36L, taxi via Alpha, Charlie, cross Runway 13, hold short of Runway 27.” If multiple runways intersect the route to the departure runway, the controller will not simultaneously issue all the crossing clearances. For instance, in the example above, the controller would not have cleared the aircraft to cross both Runway 13 and Runway 27 at the same time. However, an exception may be made in cases where the distance between two runway centerlines is less than 1,000 feet.
