Why is it called taxiing?!
Question: When you are in an airplane and moving from the gate at the airport to the runway just before you takeoff; then again when you land and move from the runway to the gate; pilots called it taxiing.
Can anyone tell me why?
Answers: When you are in an airplane and moving from the gate at the airport to the runway just before you takeoff; then again when you land and move from the runway to the gate; pilots called it taxiing.
Can anyone tell me why?
It's a variant of the word "Taxi", and one of the definitions for "Taxi" is "to make an aircraft move under it's own power on the ground, usually before takeoff or after landing, or move on the ground in this way."
I can't find the etymology for it.
I fly planes in simulators.
I think they call it taxiing because when you are in a taxi you want to get to point a to b as quickly as possible. The pilots are trying the same thing, to get to point b as soon as possible.