LOW TIME IFR RATED CFI IN C152 BECAME DISORIENTED WHILE PASSING OVER SLI ON VOR RWY 30 APCH TO LGB. EXCESSIVE CORRECTIONS TO GET BACK ON COURSE CAUSED A TFC CONFLICT TO DEVELOP WITH FASTER MOVING SECOND ACFT MAKING ILS RWY 30 APCH BEHIND HIM. SUBSEQUENT MISSED APCH WAS INITIATED PRIOR TO REACHING THE MISSED APCH POINT.
Synopsis
LOW TIME IFR RATED CFI IN C152 BECAME DISORIENTED WHILE PASSING OVER SLI ON VOR RWY 30 APCH TO LGB. EXCESSIVE CORRECTIONS TO GET BACK ON COURSE CAUSED A TFC CONFLICT TO DEVELOP WITH FASTER MOVING SECOND ACFT MAKING ILS RWY 30 APCH BEHIND HIM. SUBSEQUENT MISSED APCH WAS INITIATED PRIOR TO REACHING THE MISSED APCH POINT.
Narrative
I WAS FLYING VFR-ON-TOP WITH AN IFR CLRNC TO FLY THE VOR RWY 30 APCH INTO LGB. I WAS VECTORED; CLRED FOR THE APCH; AND TOLD TO DSND TO 1500 FT MSL IMC. JUST BEFORE XING THE SCI VOR; I WAS HANDED OFF FROM SOCAL APCH TO LGB TWR OVER TOP OF SCI VOR. I HAD FULL SCALE DEFLECTION OF MY CDI; I OVERCORRECTED AND HAD TO GET BACK ON COURSE. LGB TWR INQUIRED ABOUT MY COURSE; AND I TOLD THEM I WAS CORRECTING. SHORTLY AFTER THAT; LGB TWR TOLD ME I WAS S OF COURSE AND TO GO MISSED. THERE WAS A FASTER AIRPLANE BEHIND ME. MY 80 KT SPD WAS A FACTOR AS STATED BY ATC. I EXECUTED A MISSED APCH AT THAT POINT AND TURNED TO 200 DEGS AND CLBED TO 2500 FT MSL. I WAS LATER TOLD I SHOULD HAVE FLOWN TO THE MAP AND THEN EXECUTED THE MISSED APCH. LGB TWR WAS THE CTLING AGENCY THAT TOLD ME TO GO MISSED APCH; AND WHEN I IMMEDIATELY TURNED AND CLBED; NOTHING WAS SAID TO MAKE ME THINK I WAS IN ERROR. I NOW UNDERSTAND THAT SOCAL APCH WAS IN CTL OF ANOTHER ACFT ON THE ILS RWY 30 TO LGB. WE WERE 2 ACFT ON 2 DIFFERENT APCHS FOR THE SAME RWY AT THE SAME TIME; BUT CTLED BY 2 DIFFERENT FACILITIES. ALTHOUGH WE NEVER SAW EACH OTHER; WHEN I WAS TOLD TO GO MISSED; AND DID; MY L CLBING TURN CREATED A CONFLICT WITH THE TFC ON THE ILS. I THOUGHT I WAS CORRECT TO FLY THE MISSED APCH WHEN I DID; BECAUSE OF MY CDI HAVING FULL SCALE DEFLECTION AND LGB TWR TELLING ME TO GO MISSED. I DO NOT THINK LGB TWR WAS FULLY AWARE OF OTHER TFC IN THE AREA UNDER THE CTL OF SOCAL APCH. I DO; HOWEVER; SEE WHERE I MAY HAVE BEEN IN ERROR. I DID WHAT I THOUGHT WAS CORRECT AT THAT MOMENT. I PRIDE MYSELF ON BEING CAPABLE AND PROFICIENT PLT AND CFI.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.