NASA Forms

NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System offers a wealth of resources on real-world operations. And more.

Jim Wolper

Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 06:26 AM ET

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Edited By: Omar Filipovic

Key Takeaways:

The NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) is a vital tool for anonymously reporting aviation safety incidents and inadvertent FAR violations, often protecting reporters from penalties, with the aim of identifying and mitigating systemic safety trends.
Analysis of ASRS reports reveals common safety issues such as airspace incursions (including those involving UAVs), procedural errors, maintenance oversights, conflicts between ATC instructions and aircraft limitations, and challenges with dangerous goods or GPS interference.
Pilots are strongly encouraged to utilize the ASRS for reporting incidents to enhance overall aviation safety and to maintain vigilance in areas like pre-flight checks, understanding aircraft status, and clear communication with air traffic control.

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It was a fun hangar-flying session, right up until one of the local instructors got serious for a moment. He warned us that the tower at a local Class D airport was “issuing a pilot deviation a week, so have your NASA forms ready.” The alleged violations were mostly for airspace incursions.

I rolled my eyes a little: I had once narrowly missed an airspace incursion there when I got no answer from my radio calls. I did a 360-degree turn to avoid entering the Class D and tried the ground frequency. “Sorry, I had the volume turned down,” was the controller’s response.