1993-10 · NASA ASRS report 255274
SMA PENETRATES TEMPORARY RESTR AREA.
I WAS ON A TRAINING FLT FROM SMO TO SZP TO SMO IN AN SMA. IN A PREFLT WX BRIEF; I PICKED UP THE FDC NOTAMS FOR THE TEMPORARY RESTR AREAS IN THE FIM VOR AREA. DEPARTED SMO AND PROCEEDED W UP THE SHORELINE AT 2500 FT. UPON 20 DME LAX (CLEAR CLASS B) CLBED TO 6500 FT. TUNED IN FIM VOR. KEPT A 20 DME FROM FIM TO AVOID TEMPORARY RESTR AREA 5895. VISUALLY NAVING VIA SHORELINE; VTU VOR; E OF PT. MUGU (R2519) THEN NW THROUGH OXR AND CMA. BEFORE REACHING VTU VOR (OTS); I SPOTTED AN SMT MANEUVERING IN THE AREA. UPON PASSING THE ACFT IT TURNED AND CAME UP BESIDE ME AT 4-6 O'CLOCK THEN TURNED AND HEADED NE. AT THIS POINT; I LISTENED TO CMA ATIS WHICH STATED TO ENTER AND DEPART THE AREA TO/FROM THE N; AND TO AVOID THE TEMPORARY RESTR AREAS TO THE E. NOW I PROCEEDED NW OF CMA; OVER SZP; N OF FIM VOR THEN THROUGH BUR TO SMO. UPON ARR AT SMO; I AGAIN PICKED UP THE FDC NOTAMS ON THE DUAT. THERE WERE 8 NOTAMS PRINTED OF TEMPORARY RESTR AREAS. THE 3RD ONE I READ WAS FOR FIM AND R5895; THE NEXT 2 WERE FOR PDZ AND JLI. I WAS FAMILIAR WITH R5895 AND ASSUMED THERE WERE NO OTHER RESTRS IN THE FIM AREA. READING FURTHER WAS R5968 WHICH INDICATED THAT I WAS IN VIOLATION OF FAR 91.137A(2). THROUGH MY LACK OF A THOROUGH PREFLT BRIEFING; I MISSED THIS NOTAM. I HAD NO INTENTION OF FLYING THROUGH THIS AIRSPACE. IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN; I WOULD HAVE AVOIDED THE AREA. I DO NOT FEEL I INTERFERED WITH ANY OF THE ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA; BUT I DO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT AND ASSURE IT WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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