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Old 04-05-2011 | 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by jheath


No, you absolutely shouldn't but that's example is the kind of thing that can catch even the most experienced CFI off guard. I was hired with about 1000 hours to fly a Caravan in a passenger scheduled 135 outfit, and the first time I landed at O'Hare and got "taxi to 32L at Tango 10 via right Alpha, Alpha 17, cross Bravo behind the Embraer, Mike 2, Mike, Tango, tower on Mike 120.75" I was like uhhhhhhhh, one more time, I had you up to the Embraer. The problem is when you CFI even for thousands of hours, you're usually at a slower airport, sometimes non towered, and even if it is a busy tower, you're always coming and going from the same place so your taxi instructions are always the same. I instructed at the busiest GA airport in the country, KDVT, and even then it was always "taxi to the ramp via Alpha, give way to whoever." I think taxi clearances at a big airport are the hardest thing to get your head wrapped around and it's the kind of thing you're going to have to learn on the line.
You misunderstood my post...I'm not talking about what taxi route to expect and drinking from a firehose taxi clearances at a major unfamiliar airport (however alot of that confusion can be reduced at the gate or at cruise with a good common sense study of the airport diagram)....I'm talking about saying in 1 sentence what it takes some 4+ transmissions to get out..."ground flagship 5900 on bravo short of papa taxiing to gate 3"......instead of making 4 transmissions out of that one sentence...
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