Perfect. I didn’t hear it initially because the guys recording it were talking a bit over it and I just missed what they said, but I did hear the response.
Ugh. I was driving with my wife over the weekend, and as I approached a car prepared to pull out on my right, I just happened to have my eyes on him when he pulled out and I slammed on my brakes and honked, and he stopped.
He was a very old guy, and...he was looking at me, but it was clear he didn’t see me even though he was looking right at me. I could never have stopped in time.
I wonder if this pilot got the command, and robotically repeated it back without actually processing what it meant.
“I wonder if this pilot got the command, and robotically repeated it back without actually processing what it meant.”
My understanding is that it is a basic rule of flying that a plane doesn’t cross an active runway without permission, particularly at a large airport. So even if the controller was tied up on someone else, the plane should have stopped, until further instructed.
The controller response time was amazing, I wonder if there was some type of alarm triggered (but even with an alarm, the controller would have to figure out what call to make, and damn fast!).