Pilot reports of being told to call the tower after he has entered their airspace. Pilot was utilizi...

Narrative:

We were following a stolen car that was being chased by sheriff and state patrol. We were using our standard ATC squawk and were cleared by atlanta into the B airspace and to continue north as required up the west side of highway 285. Things were happening very fast and fluid due to the stolen car pursuit and there was quite a bit of chatter on all radios. We had fty in standby in our radio in case atl decided to hand us off to them. We didn't receive a hand off and believed it to be due to the late hour and light traffic. After the car was detained; we turned back to the south and called atl to get cleared to cross back to the south of the airport when they informed us to give fty tower a call. Fty reminded us to call them when coming through that area east of them. When I returned from the flight with no incident; I called fty tower on a land line to make sure I was clear on proper procedure for this instance and thank them for their attention. Fty tower informed me I should have been handed off or that atl should have shared our situation with them in this instance. Both towers were very professional and this was just a breakdown in communication. Atl is always top notch and a pleasure to work with on a regular basis.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Pilot reports of being told to call the Tower after he has entered their airspace. Pilot was utilizing flight following and the other control Tower did not hand off the aircraft to the adjacent Tower.

Narrative: We were following a stolen car that was being chased by Sheriff and State Patrol. We were using our standard ATC squawk and were cleared by Atlanta into the B airspace and to continue North as required up the west side of highway 285. Things were happening very fast and fluid due to the stolen car pursuit and there was quite a bit of chatter on all radios. We had FTY in standby in our radio in case ATL decided to hand us off to them. We didn't receive a hand off and believed it to be due to the late hour and light traffic. After the car was detained; we turned back to the south and called ATL to get cleared to cross back to the south of the airport when they informed us to give FTY tower a call. FTY reminded us to call them when coming through that area east of them. When I returned from the flight with no incident; I called FTY tower on a land line to make sure I was clear on proper procedure for this instance and thank them for their attention. FTY tower informed me I should have been handed off or that ATL should have shared our situation with them in this instance. Both towers were very professional and this was just a breakdown in communication. ATL is always top notch and a pleasure to work with on a regular basis.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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	1200184
Time
Date	201408
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	FTY.Airport
State Reference	GA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Helicopter
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 18 Flight Crew Total 7800 Flight Crew Type 400
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Clearance

Pilot reports of being told to call the tower after he has entered their airspace. Pilot was utilizing flight following and the other control tower did not hand off the aircraft to the adjacent tower.