FAA Changes Taxi Clearance Phraseology

Kudos to those 747 pilots. Now they can tell others about it and perhaps avert a reoccurance.

Way to read the article...

What this does is force the controller to tell you to cross every single runway that you'll intersect. Pilots must hold short of every runway that a controller has not specifically told them to cross.

As an air traffic controller, this is a pretty easy change for us, plus, it's a lot safer and eliminates pilots asking us if they're cleared to cross a runway. Now they will know initially and read it back as such.

This is a huge, huge improvement and a long time coming. Finally.

This does not nessarly make things better but then required more effort from the pilot and control to make sure that we get promisstion to cross. At some airports this will make all the difference since some controllers are not watching all the time nor give insturctions very well. I beleive there are also a few more changes. One was supose to be line up and wait unsted of posisiton and hold and another one is for airports that have to always tell you to hold short when you call ready if you now tell them you are holding short, they can just say roger insed of the redundant have to tell you to hold short and you have to repeat it even when you already told them. This last one will make things better. Less comunication wasted.

This is a good change, but who wants to speculate that they decided not to install RWSL and FAROS at JFK because of it, even though it sounds like a stopgap until the FAA ever decides to actually invest in ground sensor tech (and not that ASDE nonsense which doesn't take into account actual aircraft dimensions).

we do a similar thing in canada, although multiple rwy crossings can be issued in one call regardless of how close they are together

Many taxiway are not properly marked, leading to taxiway incursion. I find this at san antonio international airport.
Recomend reflective paint in the ground in addition to the signs on the taxiway.

I agree with Joe. Better markings will solve the problem. Even the system that is at kdfw would help with flashing markings on the ground for promission to cross. Taxi ways should also be better marked on the ground like the issue at ksat.