<< >> NASA ASRS Report 958176, July 2011

L39 pilot reports flying low level from the coast through the cuyamaca mountains of southern california and is captured on video by hikers.

Attributes
ACN	958176
Time
Date	201107
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Albatros (L39)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50 Flight Crew Total 2000 Flight Crew Type 300
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
Miss Distance	Horizontal 300 Vertical 150

Narrative:

[I was] flying low-level (100-300 ft AGL) enroute to the imperial valley. [I] avoided all man-made objects; people. Never thought we violated any distance requirements by far's. Several days later; a hiker posted a video of this flight; taken from mt. Laguna indicating that we scared him. I was not in any vicinity of people that I saw; but the video shows us about 300 ft away from the hiker and 100-150 off the ground. This close proximity to hikers was unintentional.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: L39 pilot reports flying low level from the coast through the Cuyamaca Mountains of Southern California and is captured on video by hikers.

Narrative: [I was] flying low-level (100-300 FT AGL) enroute to the Imperial Valley. [I] avoided all man-made objects; people. Never thought we violated any distance requirements by FAR's. Several days later; a hiker posted a video of this flight; taken from Mt. Laguna indicating that we scared him. I was not in any vicinity of people that I saw; but the video shows us about 300 FT away from the hiker and 100-150 off the ground. This close proximity to hikers was unintentional.

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.