Tail to the Nor… south?

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I ended up leaving a flight today at KLAX after being told to follow instructions after being told to pushback with the tail to the North. I started pushback from the international terminal, tail going back towards runway 24L/R, nose facing 25R to taxi to 25R. Am I missing something? I don’t want to have trouble with this in the future.

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I went years without playing, tryna get readjusted

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If your tail/APU is facing runway 24R and L you are following instructions for pushback tail to the north. Chances are the controller doesn’t know north from south and east from west.

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Alright thank you, had me questioning everything so i just left😭

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Obviously always follow ATC instructions but if it’s something that you absolutely know you didn’t do wrong just proceed as normal. And if you were ever to receive a violation for something like this, the appeals team is always there.

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Best way to push back is have the hud on in the cockpit to see where the tail goes

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Adding on tail south=nose north east=nose west

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If you use auto pushback there is also a compass in the top left corner to help you locate north and south.

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the tail positions automatically generated after the controller chooses the path on drag to push?

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yes, but there is also a quick menu that give you all the tail position when selecting one aircraft, this give the instruction but not the automatic pushback track