1988-12 · NASA ASRS report 99656
UNAUTH LNDG; NO RADIO CONTACT; NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF LIGHTS.
CFI IN RIGHT SEAT. WE START UP AGAIN; LISTENING TO ATIS; SWITCHED FREQ TO GND CTL. ASKED TO TAXI TO THE ACTIVE RWY; WE TOLD GND WE HAD ATIS AND THAT WE WOULD BE IN THE PATTERN. TAXI CLRNC TO RWY ACKNOWLEDGED AND APPROVED BY GND CTL. TAXIED TO RWY AND DID THE RUNUP BEHIND THE HOLD LINE ON THE TXWY. AFTER RUN UP WE SWITCHED FREQ TO TWR AND RECEIVED CLRNC FOR TKOF AND ACKNOWLEDGED SAME. RIGHT TFC WAS TO BE PATTERN. WE CLBED OUT AND AS WE TURNED DOWNWIND THE INSTR WAS EXPLAINING HOW WE WERE GOING TO SET UP FOR A SOFT FIELD LNDG AND REITERATING PRELNDG PROC. BY THIS TIME WE WERE APPROX 45 DEGS FROM T/D POINT SO I TURNED BASE AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER FINAL. DURING FINAL THE INSTR WAS WATCHING AIRSPD CLOSELY EVEN THOUGH WE WERE AT THE PLANNED APCH SPD. I WAS WATCHING VASI LIGHTS AND RWY #'S TO DETERMINE I WAS ON THE CORRECT DSCNT ANGLE. VASI INDICATED CORRECT APCH ALT. WE SIMULATED A SOFT FIELD LNDG; WITH FLAPS RETRACTED. I INCREASED THE THROTTLE AND SIMULATED A SHORT FIELD TKOF OVER A 50' OBSTACLE. WE CLBED OUT CORRECTLY AND TURNED XWIND AT APPROX 500' AGL. THEN TURNED DOWNWIND. AT THIS TIME THE INSTR MADE COMMENT THAT THE RADIO HAD BEEN SILENT. HE STARTED TO MOVE SOME SWITCHES AND BUTTONS AND CALLED OR THE TWR. TWR ACKNOWLEDGED AND ASKED IF WE HAD SEEN THE RED LIGHT. NEITHER OF US HAD; HOWEVER NEITHER OF US WERE THINKING ANYTHING WAS UNUSUAL. AT THAT TIME WE CONTINUED WITH A CLRNC TO DO ANOTHER TOUCH AND GO. THE TWR ASKED US TO CALL THEM AFTER OUR FLT. DURING THE CONVERSATION AT THE TWR WITH THE CTLR WE WERE TOLD A MLG WAS LNDG ON ANOTHER XING RWY AND THEY HAD XMITTED FOR US TO HOLD SHORT OF THAT RWY. AS WE HAD COMPLETED OUR TOUCH AND GO; WE NEVER CROSSED THE OTHER RWY ON THE GND AND I DON'T THINK WE DID IN THE AIR AFTER LIFT OFF. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE MLG HAD ACKNOWLEDGED THEY WOULD HOLD SHORT OF OUR RWY. I BELIEVE THE INSTR WAS NOT FAMILIAR IN THE AIRPLANE WE WERE FLYING. HE SAYS HE HAS FLOWN AN SMT A LOT; BUT I WASN'T AWARE OF A RADIO PROB AND HE WASN'T ABLE TO GET THE RADIO SET CORRECTLY EITHER. MY FEELING IS THAT I HAVE AN INSTR DUAL WITH ME TO KEEP ME OUT OF TROUBLE; WHETHER IT BE A FLT PROB; FAR; OR WHATEVER. NOW I GUESS IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO FLY WITH A CFI BEFORE I FIND OUT HOW CURRENT HE IS IN THE ACFT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE DUAL IN. I DON'T MEAN TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE IT'S ALL THE CFI'S FAULT. HOWEVER; I'M FORTUNATE I CAN FLY THE AIRPLANE AND THAT WE DIDN'T STALL OR RUN INTO ANYTHING. I'M NOT SURE THE CFI COULD HAVE RECOGNIZED THE SITUATION IN TIME. JUST AS LNDG W/O A CLRNC WASN'T THOUGHT OF UNTIL THE TWR CALLED IT TO HIS; AND OF COURSE MY; ATTN.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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