Originally Posted by
John Carr
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".
In 16 years of military service, I've never heard of the "duty runway"......
at least in the Air Force......maybe I've missed something.......normally we just call it the active runway....or runway in use......though, I don't discount the possibility that "duty runway" exists.....perhaps in one of the other services...you know those Navy guys always come up with their own words for the "boat".....
