NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
PA-28 Single Pilot reported encountering inflight icing resulting in altitude loss as well as loss of Comm 1 and Nav 1. Reporter requested ATC routing assistance and completed effective trouble shooting to execute an uneventful landing at destination.
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
Verbatim from the de-identified NASA record. First-person account by the
reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
IFR cross country coming up V1 at 5,000 feet. Started icing up. Lost some altitude. Requested 3,000 feet. [Local] approach gave me 4,000 ft. Ice melted. Northeast of ZZZ started icing up again lost altimeter, airspeed, vertical speed, comm 1, and all navigation equipment. Used a spare cockpit altimeter to restore the altitude. ATC let us go down to 3,000 feet. Direct to ZZZ1. Ice melted so altimeter, airspeed, and vertical speed restored. Still no comm 1 and no navaids. Used the comm 2 and my Foreflight pro to shoot an ILS into ZZZ1 where it was raining at the time.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Aircraft Equipment Problem
- Deviation - Altitude
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
- Inflight Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Aircraft · Human Factors · Weather
- 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 ↗.