B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Chart Or Publication
This is in regard to the operations alert at SFO concerning the use of taxi-lane 'Y'. The text of this operations alert references 'group 3 aircraft'. That is an ATC term. It is not defined anywhere in any of our manuals that I can find. Thus it should not be used in an operations alert or pilot bulletin because it means absolutely nothing to the average line pilot. Instead; this operations alert should have said that taxi-lane 'Y' is restricted to B737 series and A320 series and smaller; or wingspan less than 118 feet. That language actually means something to the average line pilot.
B757 Captain reported confusing language found in a temporary taxi alert.