SMT X NON ADHERENCE TO ATC CLRNC PROX OF ARPTS LNDG WRONG ARPT. PLTDEV.

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SMT X WAS 15 NM S OF WRB (18 NM S OF MCN) ON AN ASSIGNED HDG OF 345 DEG VECTOR FOR STRAIGHT IN RWY 31 AT MCN. WRB TWR WAS TOLD OF THE ACFT AND GRANTED PERMISSION TO TRANSIT THEIR ATA. SHORTLY THEREAFTER; TRAINING BEGAN ON THE ARR POS AT MACON APCH. THE TRAINEE HAD JUST ASSUMED THE POS AS SMT X CALLED THE ARPT IN SIGHT AND DID NOT HEAR THE XMISSION. THE TRAINEE ISSUED THE ACFT POS TO SMT X AND WAS ADVISED BY THE INSTRUCTOR THAT SMT X HAD ALREADY RPTED THE RWY IN SIGHT. THE TRAINEE THEN ASKED SMT X TO VERIFY HE HAD MACON ARPT WITH XING RWYS AND VOR ON THE FIELD IN SIGHT. SMT X STATED THAT HE DID HAVE MCN IN SIGHT. THE INBOUND WAS PASSED TO MCN TWR WHEN SMT X WAS 7 NM SSE OF MCN RWY 31. SMT X WAS SWITCHED TO MCN TWR FREQ. UPON CHANGING TO MACON TWR FREQ AND CHKING IN; HE WAS ISSUED 'NOT IN SIGHT; CLRED TO LAND RWY 31.' MACON TWR NEVER ACQUIRED THE ACFT VISUALLY AND THE ARTS TAG; ALONG WITH THE PRIMARY/BEACON TARGET; DROPPED AS HE NEARED THE MAIN BANG. SMT X CALLED MCN TWR AND ASKED POS OF FBO TO WHICH MCN TWR ASKED HIS POS. SMT X REPLIED THAT HE WAS ROLLING OUT. MCN TWR CTLR CALLED WRB TWR AND ASKED IF THEY HAD AN ACFT ON THE RWY. WRB TWR REPLIED AFFIRMATIVE. SMT X WAS ADVISED HE LANDED AT THE WRONG ARPT AND SWITCHED TO WRB TWR FREQ. OMITTED FROM THE TEXT WAS THE FACT THAT; UPON VERIFYING THAT SMT X HAS MACON ARPT IN SIGHT; THE TRAINEE CLRED SMT X FOR VISUAL APCH STRAIGHT IN RWY 31.