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GA pilot reported that two other aircraft in the pattern were using improper and unsafe non-towered airport practices.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1510785 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201801 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Total 1000 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
Practicing autopilot loading procedures IFR approaches (not logging and not under the hood) single pilot. Flying back to home airport two flight school planes in pattern. They seemed to be fighting with each other. I called 8 mile final 5 mile final and then had one aircraft cut me off by turning base. I called my position at 3 miles (two miles away from aircraft) and asked where he was. He realized his mistake and just did a low approach. He was never a factor for conflict; but was still not a very standard way to handle the situation; by just calling base and not verifying my position; as I was a full stop. Other aircraft immediately extended his downwind for me. With their comments on radio and nonstandard patterns made tough to concentrate on my altitude and localizer so; I did a visual approach to airport (hand flown) from eight miles out. Standard communication and better coordination between rival schools would help traffic flow for everyone. Should not have been an issue with just three total aircraft. Not a safety issue today; but if one of the aircraft would have been a solo student; I am sure they would have been very confused. Better coordination/professionalism would allow all aircraft to accomplish their training goals.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: GA pilot reported that two other aircraft in the pattern were using improper and unsafe non-towered airport practices.
Narrative: Practicing autopilot loading procedures IFR approaches (not logging and not under the hood) single pilot. Flying back to home airport two flight school planes in pattern. They seemed to be fighting with each other. I called 8 mile final 5 mile final and then had one aircraft cut me off by turning base. I called my position at 3 miles (two miles away from aircraft) and asked where he was. He realized his mistake and just did a low approach. He was never a factor for conflict; but was still not a very standard way to handle the situation; by just calling base and not verifying my position; as I was a full stop. Other aircraft immediately extended his downwind for me. With their comments on radio and nonstandard patterns made tough to concentrate on my altitude and localizer so; I did a visual approach to airport (hand flown) from eight miles out. Standard communication and better coordination between rival schools would help traffic flow for everyone. Should not have been an issue with just three total aircraft. Not a safety issue today; but if one of the aircraft would have been a solo student; I am sure they would have been very confused. Better coordination/professionalism would allow all aircraft to accomplish their training goals.
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.