"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
...
At the "Communicating for Safety" conference put on by NATCA in Dallas, I
got the impression that there is a lot of controller sentiment in favor of
changing the AIM's laissez faire approach to crossing runways enroute to
the
departure runway.

At least since I moved up there in 2000, the controllers at PAE have always
included "cross 11" when their taxi instructions require us to cross 11/29
on the way to an intersection takeoff (such as from most of the hangars to
A4 on 16R/34L).

However, now the thread has brought up the emphasis on "enroute to the
departure runway"... does that mean a taxi instruction from the same runway
intersection back to the same parking does *not* imply a clearance to cross
intervening runways? That hadn't occurred to me before, and seems to
compound the confusion.

-- David Brooks