My FO and I were talking recently about ATC and such and I related a story that happened about 20 years ago. I did something many will find outrageous and wrong. I still can't believe I said it but I did. Here is what happened. Please read the story before you vote.

My FO and I were having a landing contest in our EMB-110. We had six legs that day so we both had ample opportunity to make a squeaker. On short final, landing in SMF, the tower gave PSA a "cleared for immediate" clearance. I was pretty close (not too close for safety) and did not feel like landing in a bunch of 727 jet wash so I keyed the mic and said, "PSA hold short." They acknowledged and held short. The tower was not amused.

"Who said that?" asked the tower. I replied that I thought he was too close and did not want to eat up all his jet wash. Fortunetaly for me, PSA came on immediatey and agreed saying, "Yeah, it looked too close for us too." That is probably why I never heard anything about the incident. (I made a good landing but don't remember the result of the days contest)

OK, so looking back, I don't think that situation was dire enough to justified me "controlling" the PSA jet. On the other hand, the landing aircraft "owns" the airspace right? What do you think?

Does the landing aircraft own the runway? Is there any justification to the landing aircraft keying the mic and stoping another aircraft from taking the runway?

If you answer, "sometimes" please give a situation where a pilot is justified to speak up on the radio and countermand ATC

BTW It just occurred to me that this post should probably be in the Hanger talk section. I put it here because I was thinking about my regional days and forgot to change forum sections. Admin, can you change it?