GA-SMA IN FORMATION WITH GA-SMA UNAUTH PENETRATION OF AIRSPACE AND UNAUTH FORMATION APCH LNDG.

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I DEPARTED HYANNIS ARPT; HYANNIS; MA; IN SMA X ENRTE TO PENYAN; NY. I WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A RETIRED AIR FORCE PLT WHO WAS PILOTING SMA Y. WE WENT DIRECT PROVIDENCE VOR; DIRECT PUTNAM VOR; DIRECT BANNES VOR; DIRECT CHESTER VOR. IT BECAME APPARENT WE COULD NOT STAY VFR BECAUSE OF MOUNTAIN OBSTRUCTION AND LOW CEILINGS AND ALSO SNOW SHOWERS. THEREFORE; WE TURNED TO A HDG OF APPROX 200 DEGS; TRYING TO PICK UP PAWLING VOR. DUE TO INCREASING OBSTRUCTION AND TURB IN THE LOWER MOUNTAIN AREAS; WE DECIDED TO LAND AT BDL. I CONTACTED APCH ON 125.8 AND WAS TOLD THAT I WAS ON THE WRONG FREQ (BDL APCH) OR SOME WORDS TO THAT EFFECT. (OTHER ACFT WERE HEARD IN THE AREA ON THIS FREQ CALLING BDL APCH.) THE ONLY OTHER FREQ I BELIEVED I COULD USE (EFFECTIVELY) WAS 120.3; WHICH IS BDL TWR. I ADVISED BDL TWR OF MY POS AND ADVISED THEM THAT I HAD THE CURRENT ATIS. THEY ADVISED ME OF DEPARTING ACFT ON RWY 24; AND CLRED ME FOR A LEFT DOWNWIND TO RWY 33. I THEN SPOKE WITH SMA Y ON FREQ 122.95 AND ADVISED HIM TO CONTACT THE TWR ON 120.3. THINKING HE WAS BREAKING OFF; I THEN ENTERED A LEFT DOWNWIND AND WAS VECTORED TO A HDG OF 280 DEGS TO GIVE CLRNC TO AN APCHING JET. I WAS CLRED TO BE #2 FOR LNDG. AT NO TIME DURING MY DOWNWIND LEG TO RWY 33 DID I OBSERVE SMA Y IN FORMATION FLT. DURING MY BASE LEG ON FINAL APCH; I DID NOT OBSERVE HIM TO BE IN A FORMATION FLT. AFTER TAXIING DOWN THE RWY TO THE THIRD TXWY TO THE LEFT; THE TWR ADVISED ME; IN A QUESTIONING MANNER; THAT A SECOND PLANE HAD LANDED BEHIND ME AND THEY ASKED IF WE WERE TOGETHER. I BELIEVE I ANSWERED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. OTHER CONVERSATION ENSURED AS TO MY CALLING THE TWR WHEN I REACHED THE FBO. I DID CALL THE TWR AND MADE MY EXPLANATION RE MY ARR. SMA Y PLT ALSO SUBSEQUENTLY SPOKE WITH THE TWR FOLLOWING HIS ARR. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT FROM THE DEP AT HYANNIS ARPT; THIS PLT IN SMA Y DID NOT REQUEST AND WAS NOT CLRED FOR A FORMATION DEP. AS; IN THE CASE OF THE ARR AT WINDSOR LOCKS; I DID NOT REQUEST AND WAS NOT CLRED FOR A FORMATION ARR. FURTHER; IN ANY PREFLT CONVERSATION BTWN SAID PLTS; THERE WAS NO UNDERSTANDING; OR DETERMINATION; THAT EITHER DEPS OR ARRS WOULD BE IN FORMATION FLT. I WAS ADVISED BY THE SUPVR IN THE TWR THAT MY VIOLATIONS WERE AS FOLLOWS: FORMATION FLYING TO A LNDG AND VIOLATION AN ARSA. AS FAR AS THE VIOLATION OF THE ARSA IS CONCERNED; I THOUGHT BY CONTACTING APCH I WOULD BE ALLOWED TO PROCEED. I HAD NO OTHER FREQ TO CALL BUT THE TWR. THE TURB AT THIS TIME WAS VERY STRONG AND I WAS HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING AN EXACT FIX ON MY POS. I HAD NO DME TO TELL ME JUST HOW FAR OUT I WAS FROM THE BDL VOR. I HAVE FLOWN MANY TIMES INTO LOGAN ARPT USING APCH CTL AND I THOUGHT MY PROCS WERE CORRECT. I MUST HAVE BEEN WRONG; AND IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 86126: I WAS GIVEN THE OK TO DEP HYA AS 1 OF A FLT OF 2. I WAS IN COM WITH THE LEAD PLANE ON 122.95. I WAS HAVING DIFFICULTY HEARING THE OTHER PLANE. TEN MINS OR THEREABOUTS NW OF BDL; AUDIBLE COM WITH THE OTHER PLANE WAS VERY POOR. IN THE BEST INTEREST OF SAFETY; I ELECTED TO STAY WITH THE LEAD PLANE TO A SAFE LNDG. I FOLLOWED THE LEAD PLANE AT A CLOSE; BUT SAFE; DISTANCE AT ALL TIMES. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: RPT WAS SENT BECAUSE W/O RADIO RPTR STAYED WITH LEAD ACFT; BUT LEAD ACFT DID NOT TELL BDL THAT THERE WAS A FLT OF 2; SO TECHNICALLY RPTR FEELS HE ENTERED ATA W/O CLRNC. HAS HAD NO COMS FROM FAA; SO APPEARS BDL WAS NOT TOO UPSET BECAUSE HE DID STAY CLOSE TO LEAD ACFT. BECAUSE OF WX THEY DIVERTED TO BDL.