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Controller voiced concern regarding new detailed taxi instruction requirements; claiming new procedures causes more confusion than it resolves.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 821629 |
| Time | |
| Date | 200901 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Ground Local |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Air Traffic Control Radar 2 Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 11 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Other Taxi Procedures |
Narrative:
Regarding ATC issuing taxi routes to every aircraft to every runway; it creates more confusion than it helps. I have had numerous air carriers; air taxies; trainers; and GA aircraft get completely bewildered when I issue the taxi instructions with the exact route versus taxi to runway without the route. We have a simple set-up at this airport. It was apparently made complex by this new rule. It ties up the frequency while you correct all the mistakes and takes your eyes off of more important things. I think we should go back to what it was before; and only issue an exact route when necessary/requested. At least; at this airport; we should do that because of our problems now with it whereas before we didn't have any.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Controller voiced concern regarding new detailed taxi instruction requirements; claiming new procedures causes more confusion than it resolves.
Narrative: Regarding ATC issuing taxi routes to every aircraft to every runway; it creates more confusion than it helps. I have had numerous air carriers; air taxies; trainers; and GA aircraft get completely bewildered when I issue the taxi instructions with the exact route versus taxi to runway without the route. We have a simple set-up at this airport. It was apparently made complex by this new rule. It ties up the frequency while you correct all the mistakes and takes your eyes off of more important things. I think we should go back to what it was before; and only issue an exact route when necessary/requested. At least; at this airport; we should do that because of our problems now with it whereas before we didn't have any.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.