NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
Piper pilot reported a critical ground conflict by violating the clearance to hold short of the runway with an aircraft on short final. The Tower issued the landing aircraft a go around clearance to avoid a collision.
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.
At the end of my solo commercial lesson, I was doing a taxing back and I got instruction's from ATC to hold short of Runway XR and I Repeated back instructions but in my mind I thought they wanted me to line up and wait on the runway so I mistakenly lined up and waited for ATC instructions, A Skyhawk on a 0.5 miles final was issued a go around from Tower and immediately said they wanted to file a complaint. So Tower issued a possible pilot deviation to me and had me contact to give them to give my information. I believe that after nearly two hours of pattern and doing a 5.4hr cross country earlier in the day I was fatigued and my quality on performance was slowing. In future I will apply my IMSAFE & PAVE checklist more thoroughly before choosing to do night solo pattern after a day of flying.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Conflict
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
- Ground Incursion
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 ↗.