FAA to replace "Position and Hold" with "Line Up and Wait"

The reason "position and hold" was replaced is that in busy airports where transmissions may be blocked and only "...hold..." was heard there is ambiguity between "hold short" vs "position and hold". Mishearing the wrong intent could be deadly.

By only using the word "hold" in a context of "hold short", e.g. not to cross an active runway, safety is improved. "Line up and wait" is unambiguous.

As for UK airspace vs US airspace I have experienced both.

While over Southern England the published approach procedures are more often NOT followed and ATC is MANUALLY vectoring aircraft everywhere. That nullifies the intent of published procedures completely.

Published procedures create a "conveyor belt" of predictable traffic flow -- that's why they exist in the first place. But over London it's manual vector after manual vector -- a complete waste of EVERYONE'S time and creates a convoluted and error-prone traffic flow placing MORE WORKLOAD on everybody.

While in the US, following published procedures is the norm, not the exception.

Our guess was that it was a "make work" policy so that the controllers looked "busy" more often.

We are the worlds leader in ATC and we have to conform to the procedures of the rest of the world?
Not looking forward to having to say "line up and wait".

Position and hold works just fine. Standardization does not mean "better" by any means.

"Line up and wait" .......sounds like I'm at the DMV!

This will help get us more standerization to the rest of the world. I thought this was supose to be done and running by now when they also changed the runway rules.

Michael I am sorry to say that you are out of step. we may only have 6% of the worlds population but we hae aout 2/3 of the worlds air traffic and about the only accent we don't hear much of is russian and maybe Iranian but that is a very small part of the worlds air traffic. Most of the technology implemented for ATC has been designed and used by the US military and gradually introduced to the civil side of the house over the years, and that isn't just ATC but aviation in general. The US does something and the rest of the world plays catch-up and buy the time they do we've already moved on to something bigger and better. Before you say, "Nay", leet me remind you of the moon landings. Way don't we still go there you ask? Because we've done and moved on.

Whats next? If we're going to fallow ICAO and the "rest" of the world are we planning to allow "after the Boeing 737 lands, runway 10 line up and wait?". There is a reason why the FAA has the best track record in the world, it's because we do things the right way. It will be a sad day once this new change is put into effect.

Michael is right.

CR RM , fly over the southern part of the United Kingdom sometime , then you will hear the world's leader in ATC , it never fails to amaze me , and they are dealing with every nationality and accent under the sun . The United States has about six percent of the world's population , so who is out of step here ??