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Attributes | |
ACN | 1687228 |
Time | |
Date | 201909 |
Local Time Of Day | 1801-2400 |
Place | |
Locale Reference | VNC.Airport |
State Reference | FL |
Environment | |
Flight Conditions | VMC |
Light | Night |
Aircraft 1 | |
Make Model Name | M-20 Series Undifferentiated or Other Model |
Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
Flight Phase | Final Approach |
Route In Use | Visual Approach |
Flight Plan | IFR |
Person 1 | |
Function | Single Pilot |
Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private |
Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60 Flight Crew Total 3299 Flight Crew Type 3299 |
Events | |
Anomaly | Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT |
Miss Distance | Vertical 30 |
Narrative:
Fatigue-final landing after 11 hours of flying. Unable to activate runway lights. Assumed lights were defective. Turned off ipad with synthetic vision due to brightness. Began approach to runway 5 with VFR guidance from GPS. Focused on 2 bright white lights which were from a golf practice range next to runway 5 and I thought that they were VASI lights. Golf range had 60 ft. Poles with netting to trap golf balls. None of the poles had a red light. Passing through 100 ft. Turned right to land on runway 5. Discovered on taxiing that I had 120.72 instead of 122.72 tuned in to activate the lights.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: M-20 pilot reported fatigue contributing to distraction and using the incorrect frequency.
Narrative: Fatigue-final landing after 11 hours of flying. Unable to activate runway lights. Assumed lights were defective. Turned off iPad with synthetic vision due to brightness. Began approach to Runway 5 with VFR guidance from GPS. Focused on 2 bright white lights which were from a golf practice range next to Runway 5 and I thought that they were VASI lights. Golf range had 60 ft. poles with netting to trap golf balls. None of the poles had a red light. Passing through 100 ft. turned right to land on Runway 5. Discovered on taxiing that I had 120.72 instead of 122.72 tuned in to activate the lights.
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.