These days, the unauthorized presence of an airplane (or part of it) on a runway is sure to get the controller's attention, and not in a good way, either. For instance, if even an inch of your spinner crosses the runway hold lines without a clearance, that's a runway incursion... no matter how you spin it. Recently, a friend was holding short of a runway (close to the hold bars) when the tower instructed him to execute a 180-degree turn and taxi to another intersection. My friend said that he'd happily comply but only if his left wing could get a clearance onto then off the runway during the pivoting turn. The controller obliged by clearing his left wing onto, then off the runway. Was he being a smarty pants? If he was, at least he's a violation-free smarty pants.

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