PLT OF AN SEL SMA FAILED TO STOP SHORT OF AN ACTIVE RWY DURING TAXI OUT AS INSTRUCTED BY GND CTL DUE TO CLRNC CONFUSION.

Date: 1999-04 · Aircraft: Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer · Phase: taxi

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-clearance|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-far|ground-incursion-runway

Synopsis

PLT OF AN SEL SMA FAILED TO STOP SHORT OF AN ACTIVE RWY DURING TAXI OUT AS INSTRUCTED BY GND CTL DUE TO CLRNC CONFUSION.

Narrative

I LANDED GON AT ABOUT XA00; RWY 5 WAS ACTIVE. AFTER HAVING BREAKFAST; STARTED UP; CHKED ATIS AND CALLED GND CTL. HAVING LANDED ON RWY 5 1 HR EARLIER; AND SEEING A COMMUTER TURBOPROP WAITING FOR TKOF ON RWY 5; I BECAME CONFUSED WHEN CLRED WITH A HOLD SHORT OF RWY 5 AT TXWY G. I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TXWY G WAS; AS I WAS ABOUT TO CROSS RWY 33. I SAW AN ACFT ON FINAL FOR RWY 33 AND IMMEDIATELY DID A 360 DEG TURN TO CLR RWY 33. MY R WING WAS PROBABLY PARTIALLY OVER RWY 33; BUT ONLY MOMENTARILY AND DID NOT CONFLICT. GND THEN DIRECTED ME TO RWY 33 PROPERLY. AFTER DEPARTING; I LISTENED TO ATIS AGAIN AND THE INFO WAS ILS RWY 5 AND TKOF RWY 33. I WAS CONFUSED BY HAVING LANDED RWY 5; SEEING AN ACFT AWAITING TKOF ON RWY 5; AND NOT LISTENING CLOSELY ENOUGH TO ATIS. FURTHER CONFUSION WAS THAT I HEARD (OR MISHEARD) HOLD SHORT OF RWY 5 AT TXWY G. I FLY IN AND OUT OF GON FREQUENTLY; AND THE VISUAL PATH ACROSS RWY 5 IS AT TXWY D. THE ONLY THING I CAN SAY IN MY FAVOR IS THAT I LOOKED BOTH WAYS AT RWY 33 BEFORE XING. I NEED TO BE MORE CAREFUL ABOUT LISTENING TO ATIS AND GND CTL.

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