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20:13 Sep 17, 2012 

That was one of the reasons I disliked working for agencies. With direct clients, I almost always have a direct line to the authors, more often than not highstanding experts in their fields. I suppose the agencies don't give you the number of the client for fear you will steal them. I call that the invisible spoke in the wheel (rather than Adam Smith's invisible hand).

14:12 Sep 17, 2012 

Ciao Jim,

In my situation there is usually an extra step between me and the client: a translation agency that sends me these jobs. They deal with the client and I never deal with or hear from the client directly. I told the agency that I wasn't sure about this term, and a few others. And in this case, in addition, the client is different from the air traffic controllers who were recorded here. It IS very nice when I can call a client directly and say "just what did you mean by this word?" or "what do they mean here in this document of yours"?

08:00 Sep 17, 2012 

couldn't you get info from the client?

06:58 Sep 17, 2012 

I ended up using the term "crossing" ... It's a direct translation, even though I don't know whether it's the appropriate term for flight control language in this context.

09:05 Sep 10, 2012 

I've been right here ... as I am now, at 2am ... working on one project after another and occasionally venturing to answer some KudoZ questions as well. Well, this project is finished (and I am nearly so). Thank you for your help ... basically I used different forms of "cross" or "crossing" in the text. The client knows that air traffic control isn't my specialty.

Ciao for now.

08:52 Sep 10, 2012 

Where have you been? There have been loads of often unanswered medical questions up here you could be answering :)

04:23 Sep 10, 2012 

Ciao Jim, nice to "see" you. I figured it has to do with crossing air space, or certain air traffic lanes ... I just don't know the standard "industry" term for it.

01:06 Sep 10, 2012 

which is so clear from the context to the two speakers (but not to us) that they don't need to say what. Could be the whole air field, rather than just a runway.

20:07 Sep 9, 2012 

I'd guess "runway".

18:53 Sep 9, 2012 

Hi Phil. It's probably from an airport (where this tower is located), but they don't specify. They say "si e alzato l'IREMV (the name of the helicopter) and they say the location, which is just the name of a city that I blanked out above. I can only suppose that it's from this tower's airport.

18:25 Sep 9, 2012 

I'm not clear where the helicopter is taking off from - the airport, or somewhere else? If it's the former, they'd presumably need permission to cross a runway.