Controllers To Use New Wording To Advise Pilots

A decade after the National Transportation Safety Board recommended a change in air traffic controller wording to keep an aircraft in place, the FAA has adopted “line up and wait” as of Sept. 30. The phraseology, approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization, replaces “position and hold...

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