Runway Incursions
Types
- Pilot deviation: Pilot-caused incursion
- Operation incident: ATC-caused incursion
- Vehicle / pedestrian deviation
Clearances and Taxiing
- Movement areas require a clearance
- Clearance limit: the further pointer we're clear to
- Expectation bias: the pilot usually expects a certain instruction
- Explicit crossing instructions are required
- Ground to tower frequency change
- Tips
- Always write down clearances
- Note closed runways/taxiways
- Highlight hot spots
- Hot spots on airport diagram
- Progressive taxi
- "Unable" is you are unable
- Use sterile cockpit even when taxiing
- ATC must give you explicit runway crossing instructions
AC 61-73B