by bbuckley » Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:55 pm
Over 4 years and over 330 hours on PE (and many hours IRL), I finally did it... landed without clearance. I had just finished installing extensive mods to the Phenom 100 that includes new engines, spoilers, wx radar etc, and I was so preoccupied with the airplane that after being cleared for the visual approach, and listening to the same controller voice all the way down to exiting the runway, he advised I was still on approach freq (I need to check the audio to see if he handed me off to tower with the visual clearance, I just can’t recall), and had landed without clearance. Lesson to self, no matter how many hours you have you can get preoccupied and especially when you're doing something very familiar (an approach I've done many times) you are prone to mistakes. Mea Culpa.
Edit: listened to audio, never got handed off to tower (IFR), but doesn’t change the mea culpa.
Commercial / Instrument / KMLB