Originally Posted by
WARich
From my experience, LGA controllers, especially ground, just want you to shut the F up and wait until you're called......
True, just like ORD, just like JFk.........
But listening to a pilot at the gate involved in conversation over what the "duty runway" is because ATIS is saying departures are using 13 but a USair MetroJet 737-200 is taxing to another runway (I'm guessing for performance reasons, don't care) and causing the pilot confusion was pretty funny. Especially when the pilot KEPT asking why MetroJet is taxiing to another runway despite the "duty runway" being 13. Till the controller just said "the ATIS says the active is 13, unless you tell me different, you're going to 13 also, don't argue"
Controller probably further confused him by calling it the "active runway".