On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:29:09 -0700, "David Brooks"
wrote:

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.

According to the AIM, it *DOES* imply a clearance to cross all intervening
runways:

"In the absence of holding instructions, a clearance to "taxi to" any
point other than an assigned takeoff runway is a clearance to cross ALL
runways that intersect the taxi route to that point." (emphasis mine).


--ron