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Although they made appropriate transmissions of their position and intentions; the student and instructor pilots aboard a PA28 failed to select the comm system tuned to the CTAF for their arrival airport. While in their takeoff roll from their first touch and go they spotted another aircraft landing opposite direction; rejected their takeoff and rolled off the end of the runway as the other aircraft went around. Only then did they discover their error.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 950330 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201105 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | OBE.Airport |
| State Reference | FL |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Takeoff |
| Route In Use | Direct Visual Approach |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Aircraft 2 | |
| Make Model Name | Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Communication Systems |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 70 Flight Crew Total 650 Flight Crew Type 500 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Excursion Runway |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 300 Vertical 300 |
Narrative:
15 NM out from obe; we began our before landing check and commenced our descent. We made a 10 NM out call; a 5 NM out call and also reported over the field for runway 32. Once in the pattern; we made regular downwind; base; and final calls. On short final we noticed; for the first time; that we had company traffic in the pattern. It looked as though the traffic just took off. We landed; and I expected to slow; to give our upwind traffic some space. A few seconds later; as the rollout continued; we noticed the aircraft getting bigger in size. We aborted our takeoff with 600 ft remaining; and rolled slightly into the grass past the departure end of the runway. The aircraft we saw was on final approach for runway 14! He went around. We taxied over to the hold short position of runway 14 and I keyed my mike forcefully to try and make contact with the 'non-communicating' aircraft. We then noticed our 'transmit' signal flash on our comm 2; which was tuned in to the FSS frequency 122.6; and not the CTAF; 123.00. We switched comms; to hear: 'cherokee at okechobee; are you on frequency?' we apologized and replied that we hadn't switched frequencies. The remainder of the lesson was uneventful.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Although they made appropriate transmissions of their position and intentions; the student and instructor pilots aboard a PA28 failed to select the comm system tuned to the CTAF for their arrival airport. While in their takeoff roll from their first touch and go they spotted another aircraft landing opposite direction; rejected their takeoff and rolled off the end of the runway as the other aircraft went around. Only then did they discover their error.
Narrative: 15 NM out from OBE; we began our before landing check and commenced our descent. We made a 10 NM out call; a 5 NM out call and also reported over the field for Runway 32. Once in the pattern; we made regular downwind; base; and final calls. On short final we noticed; for the first time; that we had company traffic in the pattern. It looked as though the traffic just took off. We landed; and I expected to slow; to give our upwind traffic some space. A few seconds later; as the rollout continued; we noticed the aircraft getting bigger in size. We aborted our takeoff with 600 FT remaining; and rolled slightly into the grass past the departure end of the runway. The aircraft we saw was on final approach for Runway 14! He went around. We taxied over to the hold short position of Runway 14 and I keyed my mike forcefully to try and make contact with the 'non-communicating' aircraft. We then noticed our 'transmit' signal flash on our Comm 2; which was tuned in to the FSS frequency 122.6; and NOT the CTAF; 123.00. We switched comms; to hear: 'Cherokee at Okechobee; are you on frequency?' We apologized and replied that we hadn't switched frequencies. The remainder of the lesson was uneventful.
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.