TRACON controller was informed a week after the event that an error occurred because he failed to in...

Narrative:

Working the early midnight inbound push; I had a few inbounds with the first straight in to 28L and an E145 angling in from the southeast for 28R and a BE58 inbound from the southwest. I issued traffic to follow on 28L and the traffic for 28R to the BE58. The BE58 reported both aircraft in sight and I cleared him to follow the traffic to 28L and maintain visual separation with the traffic for 28R. The BE58 read the clearance back verbatim; so I went on to the rest of my sequence and switched him to the tower. It was a week later that I was informed by someone half way across the country that because the BE58 didn't read back his call sign I would be hit with an error. I've been working airplanes for nearly 30 years and training others to work airplanes for most of that time and knowing that someone sitting behind a desk half way across the country will nail me for a class a; or whatever they call the bad one now; error; I am going to have to change the way I work and how I train others how to work airplanes. The safe; orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic will have to just be the safe and orderly flow of traffic.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: TRACON Controller was informed a week after the event that an error occurred because he failed to insure a visual separation clearance response included a call sign.

Narrative: Working the early midnight inbound push; I had a few inbounds with the first straight in to 28L and an E145 angling in from the southeast for 28R and a BE58 inbound from the southwest. I issued traffic to follow on 28L and the traffic for 28R to the BE58. The BE58 reported both aircraft in sight and I cleared him to follow the traffic to 28L and maintain visual separation with the traffic for 28R. The BE58 read the clearance back verbatim; so I went on to the rest of my sequence and switched him to the Tower. It was a week later that I was informed by someone half way across the country that because the BE58 didn't read back his call sign I would be hit with an error. I've been working airplanes for nearly 30 years and training others to work airplanes for most of that time and knowing that someone sitting behind a desk half way across the country will nail me for a Class A; or whatever they call the bad one now; error; I am going to have to change the way I work and how I train others how to work airplanes. The safe; orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic will have to just be the safe and orderly flow of traffic.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1053082
Time
Date	201211
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Baron 58/58TC
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	EMB ERJ 145 ER/LR
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Approach Departure
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

TRACON controller was informed a week after the event that an error occurred because he failed to insure a visual separation clearance response included a call sign.