As a reminder, FAR Part 91.3 is titled “Responsibility and authority of the pilot in command.” Part (a) states, “The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority, as to the operation of that aircraft.”
ASRS
It’s obvious…or is it?
Isn’t it interesting that we’re all speaking the same language and yet we are struggling to understand one another?
Plane has near miss with skydiver, then jump plane
Shortly after I lifted off, the skydiver turned right in front of me. I made a sharp turn to the right, just clearing the trees and ended up buzzing a neighborhood.
Pilot calls out CFI and student as ‘all over the place’
My student pilot and I had just entered the pattern from a 45° leg to left downwind when a call on CTAF addressed us by call sign, asked our intentions, and said we were “all over the place.”
Near miss when pilot does opposite of his radio calls
Throughout the duration of our flight, the aircraft in question appeared to operate without regard for us or other aircraft in its vicinity, and had we not taken the evasive action that we did, a collision would have been highly likely.
Pilot doesn’t avoid near miss because he was busy making position reports
I spotted them nearly hitting our wing and diverted into a steep 50° turn left to avoid the collision.
Reaction to wind shear bends 172
As soon as I got near the tops of the trees I felt the lift reduce and the stall horn began. The controls were sluggish and I knew instantly that I needed to lower the nose to prevent a stall. I lowered the nose and tried to nurse it back up, but very quickly realized something needed to be done as the runway was reducing and I didn’t feel comfortable in the lift being generated being able to take me over the trees.
Cessna 210 cuts off another plane on the runway
As I released the brakes to start my roll forward I saw an airplane taxiing at high speed past me on the right and then in front of me onto the runway. There is no way he could have not seen me. He had to taxi forward of my position and around me in a very tight area to avoid striking my wingtip or going off of the narrow 40-foot-wide runway.
Stearman narrowly avoids mid-air with banner tow airplane
I realized that I had made a mistake. Even though I had visually cleared the area in front of me, I should not have flown a shallow, wings level, straight-ahead descent. I should have made one (or more) S-turns during the descent to scan for traffic ahead and below my flight path.