ASRS Reports

The 310 announced downwind for Runway YY, but in my mind I was thinking XX since everyone else was using that runway.

My student and I were approximately 10 knots below our rotation speed when I look up and to my left and notice there is an aircraft taking off on Runway 14 and we are on a direct collision course if no action is taken by either pilot.

An encounter with wake turbulence from a B737 during an instructional flight shakes up both the student pilot and the CFI.

Seems like a real dangerous way to fly — crossing midfield below pattern altitude in the wrong direction while someone is in the downwind within 500 feet of your position, only to do a 180 turn and cross back across midfield. I didn’t get the impression he felt he did anything wrong or unsafe. Seems like an accident waiting to happen with this individual.

A near-miss in the pattern, an angry controller, and a mishap with an iPad breaking the pilot’s headset leads the tower to call the authorities once the pilot lands. “He wanted me in jail,” the pilot says in his ASRS report.

There was violent vibrations inside the cabin with occasional clouds of smoke rising over the windshield.

The NOTAM for glider activity doesn’t let pilots transiting the area understand the nature of the hazard presented by dozens of paragliders operating at once from the cloud base to the ground in a narrow gap in the hills. Anyone that’s not familiar with the hazard is likely to have an accident or near miss. It’s like a drone show at Oshkosh.

Our concern here in the Tehachapi Valley in California are the two airports close together with traffic patterns that have been known to conflict with each other.