NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
Small aircraft pilot reported inadvertently entering a firefighting TFR that was not displayed on Foreflight.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
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reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
Used Foreflight to flight plan [and] used Foreflight to check fire TFR's. Only fire TFR shown 10 mins prior to flight was [not along our planned route]. Visibility in area obscured by smoke from fires. Climbing through 9000 observed fire at our 11 o'clock position [and] took corrective action to avoid fire area [with] right 90 degree turn. Altitude 11,500 climbing to 16,500. Called tower to check on TFR, they first said no TFR, then said there was a TFR surface to 9000 msl we still didn't show a TFR on Foreflight or XM weather. Upon arrival TFR appeared on Forelight. Possible TFR intrusion due to slow dissemination of TFR info.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Airspace Violation
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Human Factors
- Primary Problem
- Human Factors
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.