Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
I was surprised at this one myself. A "Cancel Takeoff Clearance" statement from ATC simply means that they've lost separation per their requirements. It is NOT a command to abort the takeoff. At a recent meeting with an ATC supervisory team, they said aborting the takeoff is up to the crew, we just have to advise them when separation has been lost and cancel their clearance. I was appalled, but that's what they said.
Carl
I got a "cancel takeoff clearance" once up in CLE when the other tower controller cleared trucks across the runway. For a few minutes CLE thought we took off without a takeoff clearance, in fact said so over the frequency, before they realized what had happened and we called them on the phone later and they were like "sorry bout that, bye!" ?
But I'll cover for ATC because I've been covered a lot of times.
