SR22
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Total 215; Flight Crew Type 215
Communication Breakdown; Confusion
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Procedure; Human Factors
After landing from a 1 hour scenic flight with 3 passengers; I was holding short of H; to contact ground. Ground instructed me to taxi via H and J and to follow a Centurion. I thought that the Centurion was the aircraft in front of me already on taxiway H so I crossed taxiway G while eastbound on H. The centurion was actually on G moving towards H. I passed in front of him and these were the communications on the radio after that: 1.- Some 30 seconds later; the ground controller said: 'Centurion XXX sorry about that; I guess he doesn't know what a Centurion is' (referring to me; it was then that I realized what the controller really wanted). 2.- The guy in the Centurion answered: 'yeah; (inaudible). That could've been an accident'. 3.- Controller: 'Roger'. 4.- Then the guy in the Centurion; some 40 seconds later requested the phone number for tower which was provided to him. 5.- Then another minute or so later; ground called me on the radio to tell me that I cut the Centurion at Golf; for which I apologized.
SR22 pilot reports misunderstanding Ground Control instructions to follow a Centurion; believing it is ahead but is actually still approaching; and cuts him off.