Cookmg:
Good thread and something that I think other "new" pilots wonder about.
1.) Like everyone else said file a "NASA" report even if just for the fun of the experience. Remember, there is a reason it's called a NASA report - the personal information is held between you and NASA. NASA is NOT the FAA! Your information will remain confidential unless the act you report is such a serious infraction that you do not qualify for immunity. That said, no one in your future will ever see that you filed this report. To date, I've probably filed something like 20 NASA reports for all kinds of things from stupid mistakes on my part to outright near-air collisions caused by ATC errors. The FAA gets the contents of your report (without your name) and it goes into a great big safety database. Do your fellow pilots a favor and file the report. Oh and I'm with a 121 carrier and just filed a NASA report the other day. Best insurance policy a pilot can have.
2.) On the Class B / Class D thing, it needs a NASA report because it is something that ATC does to us pilots all the time. They have "turf wars" over airspace and we lose. Philly Class B and Wilmington Class D is a good example. Philly will often drop you on ILG's doorstep and just say contact tower. You merrily fly on into Class D thinking they've affected a handoff and get chewed out by tower who doesn't know a thing about you. Pilots get lulled into a sense of ease on this stuff because the ATC guys "normally" take care of us. But when they are having a bad day, WE can become the fall guys.
3.) On the fear of future implications, I think you fear too much. This is not the interview breaker - this is just good experience and I think you should pat yourself on the back for having recognized the potential problem and being very astute about airspace regulations. I'm not wishing anything bad on you, but most us have far larger skeletons in our closet and still manage to survive the interview process. A lot of folks think they need to go to an interview with a squeaky clean resume and background. Got to tell you, if the airlines only hired folks with perfect records, there'd only be about 18 pilots in the hiring pool. People bend metal, do young and stupid things that teenagers and college kids do, they break regs, they fail checkrides and yet they still seem to get hired. A good pilot is always learning. Judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from surviving bad judgement. Go figure.
Good thread and something that I think other "new" pilots wonder about.
1.) Like everyone else said file a "NASA" report even if just for the fun of the experience. Remember, there is a reason it's called a NASA report - the personal information is held between you and NASA. NASA is NOT the FAA! Your information will remain confidential unless the act you report is such a serious infraction that you do not qualify for immunity. That said, no one in your future will ever see that you filed this report. To date, I've probably filed something like 20 NASA reports for all kinds of things from stupid mistakes on my part to outright near-air collisions caused by ATC errors. The FAA gets the contents of your report (without your name) and it goes into a great big safety database. Do your fellow pilots a favor and file the report. Oh and I'm with a 121 carrier and just filed a NASA report the other day. Best insurance policy a pilot can have.
2.) On the Class B / Class D thing, it needs a NASA report because it is something that ATC does to us pilots all the time. They have "turf wars" over airspace and we lose. Philly Class B and Wilmington Class D is a good example. Philly will often drop you on ILG's doorstep and just say contact tower. You merrily fly on into Class D thinking they've affected a handoff and get chewed out by tower who doesn't know a thing about you. Pilots get lulled into a sense of ease on this stuff because the ATC guys "normally" take care of us. But when they are having a bad day, WE can become the fall guys.
3.) On the fear of future implications, I think you fear too much. This is not the interview breaker - this is just good experience and I think you should pat yourself on the back for having recognized the potential problem and being very astute about airspace regulations. I'm not wishing anything bad on you, but most us have far larger skeletons in our closet and still manage to survive the interview process. A lot of folks think they need to go to an interview with a squeaky clean resume and background. Got to tell you, if the airlines only hired folks with perfect records, there'd only be about 18 pilots in the hiring pool. People bend metal, do young and stupid things that teenagers and college kids do, they break regs, they fail checkrides and yet they still seem to get hired. A good pilot is always learning. Judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from surviving bad judgement. Go figure.