PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 2.9; Flight Crew Total 196; Flight Crew Type 196
Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification; Communication Breakdown; Confusion
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Runway
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors
I was practicing touch and go's at Stinson Municipal Airport; and had been cleared for the option. I [advised my intentions were to make] a full stop; [taxi back for another takeoff] and asked to fly a right pattern when I departed; as the normal pattern is left. I understood the controller to give me that permission as he [provided] taxi instructions and; I thought; told me I was cleared to take off. I proceeded to the end of the taxiway and paused before turning onto the runway. Hearing no hold short instruction; I turned onto Runway 14 for take-off. As I started rolling; another aircraft that was not visible because of trees at the edge of the runway flew over me while coming in for a landing. The estimated horizontal distance was 150-200 feet and estimated vertical distance was 75 feet. The pilot of the landing plane called out to the controller that there was another plane on the runway. I was instructed to leave the runway and proceed to the ramp until I was contacted by the controller; which I did.
A low time Private Pilot practicing full stop takeoff and landings in a PA-28 misunderstood the Tower's clearance and taxied onto the departure runway to start his takeoff roll just as an unspecified second aircraft passed closely overhead intending to land on the runway as cleared.