If you are a Pilot or Instructor member, you may want to Ask AOPA prior to making a Pilot Report, or sending any other evidence to the CAA. If you do want help or advice at this stage, especialy if the event is likely to be serious, please give a full account of the event when you complete the "Ask AOPA" form.
1) Under CAP 1404, the CAA will contact the Registered owner of the Aircraft to ascertain who the PIC was at the time of the event.
2) The PIC will be asked to complete a Pilot Report, unless the Pilot has already completed a MOR. Following the steps below please copy your response to AOPA as it will provide us with a clear background to the event. You may want to ask AOPA to comment prior to sending to the CAA.
The Report asks for:
- The date, time, location, altitude/FL, Infringed Airspace for the event.
- Crew Experience (Total hours, Hours on type, Last 90 days, Last 28 days, last 24 hours, Licence, Base airfield.)
- Pilot Recency (Hours in last 12 months, Days since last flight, Days since last flight on type,)
- Aircraft (Registration, Type, Category (from dropdown list), Typical IAS, ownership type (from dropdown list))
- Transponder (Equipped, Any comments relevant to use (if relevant))
- Flight (From, To, Nature of flight (from dropdown list), VFR/IFR, VFR Chart used (from dropdown list), Relevant (planned) route details.)
- Weather (Visibility, Cloud, Other significant wx.)
- ATC at time of infringement (ATC Contact (Yes/No)).
- Use of GPS (GPS Used (Yes/No), Type of GPS, Aircraft equipped with airspace warning device (Yes/No))
- GA Organisation Membership
- Description (Brief outline and cause of the incident.)
- Suggested actions to prevent recurrence.
- Section 3 – Causal Factors
It will then be up to the CAA Infringement Co-ordination Group to make an assessment, determine if an infringement occurred and, if so, what was the scale of the infringement and what actions, if any, are appropriate.
