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GA pilot reported a flight over homes may have been too low.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1740524 |
| Time | |
| Date | 202004 |
| 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 | Small Aircraft |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Route In Use | Direct |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Single Pilot Pilot Flying |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
Due to covid-19 I had not been home in over a month. I work in ZZZ but live in a different state. I'm at risk at work so did not come home. Finally got a long stretch of days off and needed to fly my airplane. I had not seen my family for a long time. With no body flying I thought it would be a good chance be able to fly over there house. So I told them I was flying over if I could. ZZZ1 said they had a 40 minute gap with no traffic and I could fly over. I found their house and they were out side. After that we flew to another city.after we got back I got thinking about the flight and I realized I had probably exceeded the normal bank angle and I was not in a rural area. I did my normal planning but had not really thought about what it entailed once I got there. My adm [aeronautical decision making] was lacking in my preflight planning. I thought about the flight but not what was going to happen when I got there. Thought we will wave take a picture and leave. But there was more to it than that. I needed to think about the process once we got there other than we will just wave and take a picture. Just poor planning for that part of the flight.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: GA pilot reported a flight over homes may have been too low.
Narrative: Due to COVID-19 I had not been home in over a month. I work in ZZZ but live in a different state. I'm at risk at work so did not come home. Finally got a long stretch of days off and needed to fly my airplane. I had not seen my family for a long time. With no body flying I thought it would be a good chance be able to fly over there house. So I told them I was flying over if I could. ZZZ1 said they had a 40 minute gap with no traffic and I could fly over. I found their house and they were out side. After that we flew to another city.After we got back I got thinking about the flight and I realized I had probably exceeded the normal bank angle and I was not in a rural area. I did my normal planning but had not really thought about what it entailed once I got there. My ADM [Aeronautical Decision Making] was lacking in my preflight planning. I thought about the flight but not what was going to happen when I got there. Thought we will wave take a picture and leave. But there was more to it than that. I needed to think about the process once we got there other than we will just wave and take a picture. Just poor planning for that part of the flight.
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.