Originally Posted by
rotorhead1026
I remember a time in Charlotte some years back. Due to some taxiway blockage a fellow in a 737-300 was cleared to back taxi into position 36L. It was a long (8000'+) way, and ATC requested him to expedite. He did, energetically. With a couple of thousand feet to go, he started to slow by pulling the throttles back, and the airplane stopped. IMMEDIATELY! It was rto autobraking - he must have exceeded the activation threshold, which was seventy knots on the 300 IIRC.
It was quite a carpet dance ...
LOL poor guy!!! Since we get block or better now, I don't mind creeping around like American. I will not, however hold up other airplanes behind me LIKE American does. Jeez when I'm late, and get stuck behind an AA guy - it's murder. Last time it happened, ORD Ground let us go around them on a parallel taxiway. Thank goodness. We also had one of our airplanes go around the other day because they took forever getting off the runway.
I'm all for safety, and slow taxiing, but sometimes you just got to move it along a bit faster!!!
