An AA5B pilot with little recent flight experience landed at a class D airport below class B without...

Attributes
ACN	1233769
Time
Date	201501
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cheetah Tiger Traveler AA5 Series
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Air/Ground Communication
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 39.2 Flight Crew Total 440 Flight Crew Type 39.2
Events
Anomaly	Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Landing Without Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

Student again after 32 yrs inactive; arriving at my destination from the north under the class B airspace; obtained ATIS info. Subsequent attempts to raise tower were unsuccessful. Seeing no signals or lights from the tower after repeated attempts to call; pilot entered pattern per ATIS for rwy xxl and proceeded to land; observing a cherokee and one other plane holding short; and being prepared for a go around; and watching tower. Ground informed pilot that he had landed without permission and that tower frequency was not XXX.4 but XXX.1. The reason pilot could not raise tower was due to having the wrong frequency and did not use resources at his disposal to recheck the frequency.student learned that extra care under stress (transiting under busy class B airspace for the first time ever); and that triple checking preflight info; including reviewing resources to solve the problem once encountered could have been used at the time before proceeding.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An AA5B pilot with little recent flight experience landed at a Class D airport below Class B without landing clearance because he selected the incorrect Tower frequency.

Narrative: Student again after 32 yrs inactive; arriving at my destination from the North under the Class B airspace; obtained ATIS info. Subsequent attempts to raise Tower were unsuccessful. Seeing no signals or lights from the Tower after repeated attempts to call; pilot entered pattern per ATIS for Rwy XXL and proceeded to land; observing a Cherokee and one other plane holding short; and being prepared for a go around; and watching Tower. Ground informed pilot that he had landed without permission and that Tower frequency was not XXX.4 but XXX.1. The reason pilot could not raise Tower was due to having the wrong frequency and did not use resources at his disposal to recheck the frequency.Student learned that extra care under stress (transiting under busy Class B Airspace for the first time ever); and that triple checking preflight info; including reviewing resources to solve the problem once encountered could have been used at the time before proceeding.

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An AA5B pilot with little recent flight experience landed at a class D airport below class B without landing clearance because he selected the incorrect tower frequency.