Small Aircraft; Low Wing; 1 Eng; Retractable Gear
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 2
Time Pressure; Communication Breakdown; Distraction
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict Ground Conflict; Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Runway
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Staffing; Procedure; Human Factors; Airport
LC1 and LC2 were split and I was working LC1. Traffic was busy. Aircraft Y was just crossing the runway threshold to land when I and the other LC controller observed Aircraft X turn onto the active runway which Aircraft Y was landing on. The other LC controller quickly instructed Aircraft X to exit the runway. The LC2 controller gave Aircraft X hold instructions which he read back correctly. He then continued to turn onto the active runway witch he was told to hold short off. I believe this happened because he had exited onto our intersecting runway which has no lines on it to show where the parallel runway edge lines should be. Another contributing factor is that GC was combined with CIC (which is an everyday event) so there was one less set of eyes over the operation witch decreases the safety culture here at MYF.We have NO FLMs so I would recommend getting some FLMs so that GC is not combined with CIC witch takes away from the operation and is a safety issue. I recommend that we be considered here at MYF to be slated with more controllers. This would help elevate with the high volume of traffic that we face daily while being staffed to the minimums nearly every day.
Contributing factors:1. Runway markings: There are no markings on runway 23 (crossing runway) that indicates the runway edge lines of runway 28R and runway 28L. When pilots get approval to exit runway 23 and are told to hold short of runway 28L; how are they to know where to stop? 2. Staffing: As emphasized in previous reports; our staffing numbers are inadequate for the amount of traffic we have been working. It has become necessary to keep the LC position split. In doing so; GC and CIC are almost always combined. We currently have no FLMs supervising the operations. If we had a separate CIC; an extra set of eyes could have prevented this situation from occurring.
MYF Tower Controllers reported a runway incursion citing that a lack of runway markings and minimal staffing attributed to the incursion.