KING AIR CORP PLT DEPARTS WITHOUT CLRNC AFTER BEING CLRED TO POS AND HOLD.
Synopsis
KING AIR CORP PLT DEPARTS WITHOUT CLRNC AFTER BEING CLRED TO POS AND HOLD.
Narrative
TWR GAVE CLRNC TO TAXI IN POS TFC 4 MI FINAL; I TAXIED IN POS AND HELD IN PLACE. ACFT WHICH LANDED CLRED; I TOOK OFF. TWR ADVISED WE WERE NOT GIVEN TKOF CLRNC. WE WERE ASKED BY DEP CTLR TO CALL WHEN WE LANDED. I ADVISED MONTGOMERY CLRNC DEL OF LNDG TIME; AND DISCUSSED WHAT HAPPENED. THEY ADVISED TO BE MORE ALERT AS TO CLRNCS; AND NOT TO CALL BACK THEY JUST WANTED MY ASSURANCES THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MORE MISCOMS! I THINK THE ADVISING OF TFC ON FINAL CONTRIBUTED TO MY HASTE. I WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO HOLD FOR HIS LNDG. I THINK CTLRS INSERT THE SENSE OF URGENCY INTO PLTS' THINKING BY ADVISING OF TFC; WHICH IN MOST CASES; IS A WAY OF MAKING THE CTLR'S JOB LESS STRESSFUL. SOME CTLRS WILL SIMPLY CTL AND LET PLTS DO THE BEST JOB THEY CAN. IF THERE IS NO CONFLICT; THEN THE FACT THAT THERE IS TFC ON FINAL IS JUST A FACT AND DOES NOT REQUIRE ME TO HURRY UP AND TKOF. HOWEVER; THIS DOES NOT EXCUSE ME FROM HEARING; UNDERSTANDING AND COMPLYING WITH ATC CLRNCS! CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR ACFT WAS A KING AIR F90; ONE OF VERY FEW TURBINES THAT COME AND GO AT THIS ARPT. WHAT DISTURBED RPTR WAS THE SENSE OF URGENCY IN CTLR'S INSTRUCTIONS. RPTR WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO WAIT UNTIL THE TFC HAD LANDED AND EXITED THE RWY RATHER THAN GET THE HURRY UP TREATMENT. HE ADMITS HIS ERROR. HE FEELS THAT CTLRS AT THIS ARPT SEEM TO SINGLE OUT THE TURBINES AND GIVE VERY UNEXPECTED CLRNCS TO SEPARATE THEIR TFC. HE HAS GOTTEN CLRNCS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ORIGINAL CLRNC AND CAUSE A RUSH TO DIG OUT ADDITIONAL CHARTS TO COMPLY. RPTR IS ESPECIALLY AWARE OF POS HAVING BEEN TURNED TOWARD MOUNTAINS AND TOWARD THE MEXICAN BORDER AT TIMES.
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