"Tarmac" Delays

Rocketman99 said:
There are places still called "field." Using "aerodrome" sounds amusing. Using "tarmac" sounds like a term likely blocked by the profanity filter. There aren't new/modern/major airports that still have/use "tarmac." Apples to pineapples. :)

The point is the talking heads don't have a clue, which therefore makes it irritating. Wanna make it simple and correct, just call it ground and at least be accurate. "Flight 123 was stuck for three hours on the ground today at XYZ airport."
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I know there are placed still called "field" and that's my point. It isn't a field anymore, but it's still called one. It isn't Tarmac anymore, but it's still called that.

Apples - apples.
 
JEEEEZZUS!! Another semantics argument. Everybody in the damn English speaking world knows what Tarmac means, so lets quit with the geeky industry lingo.
Secondly. Every time a flash of lightning happens in proximity of an airport, they make all the ground personnel head for shelter. How would you propose unloading passengers on the RAMP or moving around aircraft without ground crews?
 
desertdog71 said:
JEEEEZZUS!! Another semantics argument. Everybody in the damn English speaking world knows what Tarmac means, so lets quit with the geeky industry lingo.
Secondly. Every time a flash of lightning happens in proximity of an airport, they make all the ground personnel head for shelter. How would you propose unloading passengers on the RAMP or moving around aircraft without ground crews?
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I've got no problem with ramp or tarmac, but I think it's funny that people get so riled up about tarmac.
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
I know there are placed still called "field" and that's my point. It isn't a field anymore, but it's still called one. It isn't Tarmac anymore, but it's still called that.

Apples - apples.
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Yes, but it's field as in short for airfield which is still used and relevant. The term still applies and some places are still called field. For instance Boeing Field in WA or Key Field in MS. It's also used in TOLD such as in balanced field length, etc. IOW still widely used in all aspects of aviation. Tarmac only started starting being used again regularly a few years ago when some idiot at a news desk needed something to call the place where the planes sit for a news report. If nothing else, the word still sounds retarded and so generally do those who use it. Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine.
 
Pretty sure this is just going to add fuel to fire but.......

There's at least one major airline that refers to their taxi time monitor (Taxi out-off, and taxi on-in) program as the "Tarmac Monitor."

Makes sense to me, because all we see are the times. We don't know the position of the aircraft on the airport.
 
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