B767 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200; Flight Crew Total 22500; Flight Crew Type 5900
Communication Breakdown; Confusion
ATC Issue All Types
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure
When we were Number 1 for take off Runway 09R LFPG; ATC issued the following clearance: 'Air Carrier X; cleared to line up and takeoff'. Having never heard this phraseology before; I asked the LFPG Control Tower if we were 'cleared for takeoff'. The LFPG Control Tower repeated; 'Air Carrier X; cleared to line up and takeoff'. I asked the other 2 pilots (I was pilot flying sitting in the right seat giving an International Qualification to the Captain in the left seat) if they were satisfied that we had received a takeoff clearance and if they felt that it was safe to continue and they both responded in the affirmative. We entered the runway and; as I was advancing the throttles for takeoff; made the following broadcast on the Tower frequency; 'Air Carrier X; rolling Runway 09R'; to which the LFPG Control Tower responded; 'Roger'. The weather was VFR at the time and there were no aircraft downfield waiting to cross our runway. We continued the take off without incident.
Air Carrier departing LFPG was uncertain regarding ATC's 'line up and wait and take off' phraseology; the clearance questioned and take off completed.