Professional Pilot, January 2016

32 PROFESSIONAL PILOT January 2016 Squawk Ident Verification by both pilots in the cockpit should be done when crossing a runway Callouts of Clear left clear right clear to cross are essential If either pilot is in doubt on routing or clearance ask ATC for confirmation Always read back clearances and ask for progressive taxi instructions when unfamiliar Be sensitive to your gut feeling which means that if something doesnt look right sound right or feel right it probably isnt right Chris Konop ATP A P Premier I Pilot Ali Gator Air Springboro OH A sterile cockpit below 10000 ft and also while taxiing is a good idea Review the airport diagram and check your taxi clearance Use your MFD or iPad to present the taxi diagram and note any hot spots Turn on all lights while taxiing and call out at intersections that you are clear at left to the right and clear to go across an intersection Clarify any instruction or avoid confusion by calling ground control Randy Meyer ATP Learjet 60 Captain Flight Concepts Sperry OK Our company stipulates that the taxi clearance must be written down just a scratch pad note And both pilots must review the route on the iPad Jepp FliteDeck Pro app We also use flows so our checklists require less time to complete and we can spend more time looking outside when taxiing Additionally when taxiing especially when crossing a runway all external lights are turned on And of course we use standard verbal clear left right cross callouts Both pilots are kept in the loop of awareness when taxiing And recently our company sanctioned use of an iPad display showing own ship position in real time on the taxi diagram Sam Myers ATP Citation Sovereign Captain NetJets Summerville SC Have the airport diagram depicted on your iPad or MFD and closely follow the ground controllers instructions Crew coordination is essential with having one pilot taxi while the other is carefully watching outside the cockpit and checking progress on the taxi route Check hot spots and be sure that full time and attention is given to the taxi instructions with no other cockpit procedures being done while taxiing Juan Vasquez ATP Hawker 800 Captain MT1332 Corp Miami FL At both my current company and former one the standard procedure has been to have one pilot heads up looking outside and the other pilot heads down monitoring the taxiway diagram The advantage with this procedure is that one pilot is always looking outside for other traffic during taxi We also use verbal check left and right when crossing a runway and we turn on all lights At one airfield we visited the hold short line was painted quite a good distance from the runway so that we accidentally crossed it because we werent expecting it to be there so soon We stopped and quickly notified the tower but all was okay The lesson here is to be vigilant and never assume Garrett Jacobsen Comm Multi Inst King Air A90 E90 First Officer Dynamic Aviation Harrisonburg VA Using our Garmin G3000 we pull up the airport diagram on our MFD so we can show where well be taxiing Then we zoom in In this way we show the position of our aircraft as well as any taxi route hot spots We can also split screens on the PFD and in addition to pulling up the Jepp airport diagram we have all the needed frequencies plus real time ships position Glen Lutts ATP Phenom 300 Pilot NetJets Maineville OH