C310R LANDS ON CLOSED RWY AT ABR WHEN THE PROPER NOTAMS WERE NOT GIVEN TO RPTR WHEN HE FILED HIS FLT PLAN WITH HON FSS. UNICOM AT ABR WAS INOP MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR RPTR TO GET FIELD INFO. RWY CLOSURE MARKINGS WERE INSTALLED ON A TXWY RATHER THAN ON THE RWY AS REQUIRED. RPTR HAD NO IDEA HE WAS LNDG ON A CLOSED RWY.
Synopsis
C310R LANDS ON CLOSED RWY AT ABR WHEN THE PROPER NOTAMS WERE NOT GIVEN TO RPTR WHEN HE FILED HIS FLT PLAN WITH HON FSS. UNICOM AT ABR WAS INOP MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR RPTR TO GET FIELD INFO. RWY CLOSURE MARKINGS WERE INSTALLED ON A TXWY RATHER THAN ON THE RWY AS REQUIRED. RPTR HAD NO IDEA HE WAS LNDG ON A CLOSED RWY.
Narrative
I CALLED HON FLT SVC AT XX15 AND FILED 2 IFR FLT PLANS. BKX TO ABR AND ABR TO RAP. I RECEIVED A STANDARD WX BRIEFING; BUT WAS NOT GIVEN ANY NOTAMS. NEARING ABR; ZMP INFORMED ME A COMMUTER WAS APCHING BEHIND ME SO I CANCELED IFR SO AS NOT TO DELAY THE COMMUTER. I THEN CALLED MY POS ON 122.7 AND DECLARED I INTENDED TO LAND RWY 31 AT ABR. I CALLED AGAIN ON FINAL TO RWY 31 AND RECEIVED NO RESPONSE EITHER TIME. AFTER LNDG; I NOTICED CONSTRUCTION EQUIP ON TXWY BTWN RWY AND PARALLEL TXWY. I COULD SEE BARRICADES NEAR THE INTXN OF RWYS 13/31 AND 17/35. I THEN TAXIED BACK TO THE APCH END OF RWY 31 AND ATTEMPTED TO EXIT ONTO THE TXWY. I WAS UNABLE TO GET ONTO THE TXWY BECAUSE AN 'X' WEIGHTED WITH SANDBAGS HAD BEEN PLACED ON THE TXWY. FBO CALLED TWICE ON 122.7 AND I ANSWERED BOTH TIMES. ON THE THIRD CALL I SWITCHED RADIOS AND THEY INFORMED ME THEIR VOLUME HAD BEEN TURNED DOWN. I INFORMED A MAN WITH THE CONSTRUCTION CREW THAT AN 'X' SHOULD BE PLACED ON THE END OF THE RWY RATHER THAN THE TXWY. LATER THAT DAY; I AGAIN CALLED HON FLT SVC AND ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY NOTAMS FOR ABR. SHE STATED THERE WERE SEVERAL INCLUDING RWY 13/31 CLOSED FOR CONSTRUCTION AND ILS FOR RWY 31 WAS SHUT DOWN. SHE ALSO STATED I SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED THOSE NOTAMS.
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