Have you ever filed an ASRS/NASA report

vikingair

vikingair

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if so ..what for? I have a couple copies in my flight bag. A year ago I sent one when landing at a non-towered airport and a county worker who was spraying for mosquitoes drove onto the runway just as I touched down. Having made all appropriate radio calls and everything else possible to ensure a safe flight and landing I have no issue with posting this. The county truck didnt even have a radio on board.

Just curious how many JC'ers have used this before.
 
I filled one out. I did a touch and go with a landing permission. It was entirely my fault. I had told the approach controller I wanted to do a few T&Gs, but when I got handed off to tower, they cleared me to land. I got a little lecture from them as I started my climb out.
 
Filed one when the controller steered me into the path of 2 RJs and a 757 on final at ATL - it wasn't my fault, but I filed the form all the same.

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Controller cleared me for takeoff with a RJ on short final. It was a mess.
 
Yes, a couple.

Once when I supposedly busted a firefighting TFR near Missoula, Montana in my 140.

The other was when I mis-programmed the GPS and very nearly busted Portland, Oregon's Class C while teaching in a Piper Arrow.


By the looks of this, you'd think I'd need a 709 ride over how to read sectionals! In my defense, both cases were dealing with airspace margins of a mile or less. Nothing ever came of either of them.
 
I have filed a few and used to have students keep them in their flight bag. Now that you can file them online though, there isn't really a reason to carry them.
 
I've got a bunch of the return receipts in a box here in my office. They aren't just some get out of jail "free" system. It's a safety system. If I see something that I think "man...that could have been bad", I write one. When submitting online it takes no longer than writing this post.

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Our ASAP program allows us to fire of an NASA form as well. I probably file about one or two ASPAPS a month when I am flying full time. Maybe about 40% of those get send as to the ASRS program as well.

As people have been saying, it is WAY more than a get out of jail free card.
 
Every time I think I or a controler may have done something wrong. I average 1-2 a year. Nothing has ever came out of it. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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Have a friend that flys for AA and he filed 5 in one day. Have another friend that busted class B and it got him off the hook.<o:p></o:p>
 
BCTAv8r said:
Is there a period for you to file? Should I file for something that happened almost a year ago?
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There's no limit, but if you want to use it as a get out of jail free card, it has to be filed within 10 days (iirc).

With that said, I think the statute of limitations for the FAA is 6 months, so I wouldn't worry about a year ago from an enforcement perspective. I might file it if it was something where safety could be improved.

One of the local FSDO safety people told me that with the FAA funding right now, a problem DOES NOT get addressed if they aren't getting direct reports on it. She asked me to file for ANYTHING that was a safety issue at all.
 
Had a door come open in flight. FAA got involved. Kinda nasty, but I didn't get dinged for it (ramper didn't secure the door properly). Either way, I was covered with my ASRS (hopefully soon to be ASAP).
 
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