Following a wake turbulence encounter on short final the pilot of an RV7 failed to hold short of an ...

Narrative:

I was 2nd to land in a flight of 3. On short final for 11 I hit the 1st aircraft's wake. I added power to ensure control and climb over the wake. This caused me to land long and miss the taxiway that the first aircraft used to exit the right side of the runway. All other taxiways were off the left side of the runway so I was now separated from my flight. I contacted the tower when I exited the runway to the left and was told to 'taxi to and hold short of 29 at echo.' I read back exactly what I was told but somehow in all the confusion of what I had expected to happen; what did happen; as well as my passenger talking; I did not fully process what I was told. When I got to echo I thought I was cleared to cross and started across the active runway. I never made it to the runway but crossed the holdshort bars the tower then asked me to confirm I had heard the hold short instructions. I immediately turned around and was back across the bars. The tower then cleared me to cross after another aircraft had departed and I then taxied back to parking with the flight. This was the first time I have ever had a misunderstanding with ATC and was most definitely a wake up that has caused me to slow down and double/triple check all of my instructions from the ATC.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Following a wake turbulence encounter on short final the pilot of an RV7 failed to hold short of an active runway as cleared. Quick action by the Tower averted an encounter with a departing aircraft.

Narrative: I was 2nd to land in a flight of 3. On short final for 11 I hit the 1st aircraft's wake. I added power to ensure control and climb over the wake. This caused me to land long and miss the taxiway that the first aircraft used to exit the right side of the runway. All other taxiways were off the left side of the runway so I was now separated from my flight. I contacted the Tower when I exited the runway to the left and was told to 'Taxi to and hold short of 29 at Echo.' I read back exactly what I was told but somehow in all the confusion of what I had expected to happen; what did happen; as well as my passenger talking; I did not fully process what I was told. When I got to Echo I thought I was cleared to cross and started across the active runway. I never made it to the runway but crossed the holdshort bars the tower then asked me to confirm I had heard the hold short instructions. I immediately turned around and was back across the bars. The Tower then cleared me to cross after another aircraft had departed and I then taxied back to parking with the flight. This was the first time I have ever had a misunderstanding with ATC and was most definitely a wake up that has caused me to slow down and double/triple check all of my instructions from the ATC.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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	871002
Time
Date	201001
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	SBP.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	RV-7
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 400 Flight Crew Type 50
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Ground Incursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter

Following a wake turbulence encounter on short final the pilot of an RV7 failed to hold short of an active runway as cleared. Quick action by the tower averted an encounter with a departing aircraft.