Terminology change

[nigelb]

After a nine year wait, the US is finally going to conform to International phraseology , changing ""position and hold" to "Line up and wait" for takeoffs. Looks like the FAA moves at a snail's pace.

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Po ... 830-1.html

I have Editvoicepak so I have had that change in FS implemented for years.

Nigel²

[Garry Russell]

It's always been "Line up hold" here...never heard them say "wait"

[Nigel H-J]

Agree Garry, hold is much more easier to understand, after all, who obeys the wifes' call to 'wait'!!

Nigel.

[Garry Russell]

It's bad enough them complaining about a "Short final"

[WhisperJet]

I have Editvoicepak so I have had that change in FS implemented for years.

The world of virtual aviation - always one step ahead.
And some of my AI are even better: they line up, wait and then - whoosh - dissolve into nothing!!

Nick

[Tomliner]

Nigel wrote

Agree Garry, hold is much more easier to understand, after all, who obeys the wifes' call to 'wait'!!

Depends whose wife! EricT

[PeteP]

It's always been "Line up hold" here

'Fraid not, Garry - it's been "line up and wait" under both ICAO and UK rules for almost 30 years although the "wait" is optional. We did use "line up and hold" when I was nought but a boy - I checked a 1973 edition of the Manual of Air Traffic services (MATS) Part 1 and it does, indeed have "line up and hold". I've just phoned an old friend who was once the editor of MATS Part 1 and he remembers it changing to "line up and wait" in 1982 along with many other changes to Aerodrome Control phraseology and procedures introduced by ICAO in the wake of the Teneriffe disaster of 1977.
Pete

[Garry Russell]

Cheers Pete

Shows how long since I listened to Airband...back in the 'eighties I guess

[PeteP]

What I don't understand is why, from all the original NTSB recommendations for phraseology changes, the FAA seems to have locked on to that particular one. If they were going to change from their current use of, say, "affirmative" for "yes" to the much safer ICAO "affirm" I could understand it but I don't see why "line up (and wait)" is inherently any safer than "(taxi into) position and hold". Very strange.
Pete

[petermcleland]

The one I dislike the most is "Runway Vacated" instead of the old "Clear"