1994-04 · NASA ASRS report 270150
AFTER FOLLOWING AN SMA TRAINING ACFT ON A WIDE PATTERN TO AN UNCTLED ARPT; AGRICULTURE PLT LANDS WHEN THE TRAINING ACFT IS STILL ON THE RWY.
A STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR PLT WERE IN THE TFC PATTERN ON A WIDE DOWNWIND FOR A L-HAND PATTERN LNDG FOR RWY 22. I ENTERED DOWNWIND BEHIND THEM AND CALLED OUT MY POS ON UNICOM AS #2 ON DOWNWIND. THE STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR WERE FLYING A CESSNA 152. THEY WERE FLYING A VERY WIDE AND LONG DOWNWIND AND TURNED TO BASE LEG FAR FROM THE ARPT IN AN UNCONVENTIONAL APCH TO LNDG. I ALLOWED MYSELF TO GET INCREASINGLY CLOSER TO THEIR ACFT IN THE PATTERN. THEY TOUCHED DOWN ON RWY 22 AS I WAS TURNING FINAL. THE RWY 22 IS 4000 FT LONG AND 100 PLUS FT WIDE. AN INTXN TURNOFF IS 2000 FT AT THE MIDPOINT. I EXPECTED THEM TO DO A TOUCH- AND-GO. INSTEAD THEY STOPPED OR SLOWED TO A WALK AT THE INTXN AND ON THE RWY AS I WAS TOUCHING DOWN AND THEN THEY QUICKLY CLRED THE RWY AND WERE CLR AS I ROLLED OUT PAST THE INTXN. IN RETROSPECT I WOULD HAVE ADDED PWR AND MADE A GAR WHEN THEY WERE NOT CLRING THE RWY. I WAS IMPATIENT TO LAND DUE TO THEIR LONG PATTERN. WE WERE NEVER CLOSER THAN 1000 FT ON THE ROLLOUT UNTIL I PASSED BY THEM AT THE INTXN. LATER THEY COMPLAINED THAT I SHOULD NOT HAVE LANDED WITH THEM STILL ON THE RWY.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
Loading the flight search…
Pick an aircraft model — Boeing 737, Airbus A320, A380, Boeing 787 Dreamliner and more — enter your origin airport, and FlightFinder shows every route that plane flies from there with live fares.
We support Boeing 737/747/757/767/777/787, the full Airbus A220/A319/A320/A321/A330/A340/A350/A380 family, Embraer E170/E175/E190/E195, Bombardier CRJ and Dash 8, and the ATR 42/72 turboprops.
Search and schedules are free. Pro ($4.99/month, $39/year, or $99 one-time lifetime) unlocks the enriched flight card — on-time stats, CO₂ per passenger, amenities, live gate & weather — plus My Trips with push alerts.
Live schedules come from Amadeus, AeroDataBox and Travelpayouts. Observed routes (which aircraft actually flew a given city pair) are crowdsourced from adsb.lol ADS-B data under the Open Database License.