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TRACON controller failed to make a required hand off to a center controller when electing to continue to work an aircraft outside his/her airspace for 25 miles.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 982156 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201112 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Airliner 99 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Approach Departure |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
I accepted the hand off on a BE99 north of our airspace at 7;500. After initial contact the BE99 advised they were climbing to 9;500. I coordinated with the center sector that had handed them off and whose airspace they were still in that I would keep control and communication with the aircraft and hand them off to the next center sector when appropriate. I spaced it out and did not complete a hand off prior to the aircraft entering the next controllers airspace. Traffic was very slow; this was the only aircraft on frequency. Although at first I correctly identified that I would need to hand off the aircraft halfway across the lateral confines of my airspace; I forgot and was thinking I had thirty miles before needing to hand them off. Recommendation; I violated one of my own rules: work the aircraft in your own airspace. Once the aircraft informed me they would be climbing above my airspace I should have handed them back to the center sector that gave them to me and whose airspace they would be in for 25 miles.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: TRACON Controller failed to make a required hand off to a Center Controller when electing to continue to work an aircraft outside his/her airspace for 25 miles.
Narrative: I accepted the hand off on a BE99 north of our airspace at 7;500. After initial contact the BE99 advised they were climbing to 9;500. I coordinated with the Center Sector that had handed them off and whose airspace they were still in that I would keep control and communication with the aircraft and hand them off to the next Center Sector when appropriate. I spaced it out and did not complete a hand off prior to the aircraft entering the next controllers airspace. Traffic was very slow; this was the only aircraft on frequency. Although at first I correctly identified that I would need to hand off the aircraft halfway across the lateral confines of my airspace; I forgot and was thinking I had thirty miles before needing to hand them off. Recommendation; I violated one of my own rules: work the aircraft in your own airspace. Once the aircraft informed me they would be climbing above my airspace I should have handed them back to the Center sector that gave them to me and whose airspace they would be in for 25 miles.
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.