NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
BE300 Pilot reported failure to report airport in sight in descent, resulted in ATC issuing a low altitude alert and a CFTT event.
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.
I became aware of a pilot deviation on Day 1. The flight date was Day 0. Because I did not receive a basher warning ("possible pilot deviation") I was very surprised when contacted. Also, because it had been so long since the flight occurred I did not recollect everything that occurred during the phase of flight. I did receive a recording to analyze, and help remember what happened during the flight. During descent we were cleared to a fix on an approach to maintain 16,000. During the descent we were given Pireps of icing around the area. Being below 18,000 we were in VMC conditions and advised that we were in the clear and should remain below the clouds for the remainder of the flight. A few moments later we received a low altitude alert, and advised we had the field in sight and would like to cancel IFR. We were then cleared for the visual approach and to squawk VFR Frequency change approved. Situational awareness, Crew resource management, advising ATC as soon as the field is in sight. To prevent this deviation in the future, changing operational procedures for the Pilot Flying to cancel IFR. Maintaining better situational awareness, and utilizing better crew resource management. Since receiving the notification I have reviewed numerous videos about the new compliance actions and would advise everyone to take some time to watch the information about pilot deviations.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
- Inflight Event / Encounter
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 ↗.