Flight Crew Student
Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Situational Awareness
Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed
Human Factors
While Holding short for a while at Runway 3 at A9 I received a clearance to line up and wait. I read back the line-up and wait clearance and taxied on to the runway. As I taxied on to the runway I somehow got the idea that I was cleared for take off; instead of line-up and wait. At the same time; a Boeing 767 was being cleared to cross the runway. When I aligned myself with the runway; I did see the Boeing 767 near the runway; but assumed it was holding short. I set take-off power and started the take-off roll. I still had visual contact with the Boeing 767 and saw that it was not holding short; but that it was crossing the runway. I aborted the take-off and notified the tower. The tower replied by saying that I was cleared to line-up and wait rather than take-off. I vacated the runway at A8 and contacted ground.
A Student Pilot in an single engine Beechcraft rejected a takeoff when he spotted a B-767 cross the runway downfield. He had been cleared to line up and wait but thought he had been cleared for takeoff.