Abi TRACON controller describes a situation where an aircraft under their control does not auto hand...

Narrative:

I radar identified aircraft X that was a VFR departure off T23;a satellite airport in my airspace. I issued the IFR clearance and cleared him on course to dwh. T23 is approximately 18 nm inside my airspace and the aircraft was south east bound on course. I should've pointed him out the ZFW possum sector; as he skirted their boundary; but I didn't notice until it was too late. I got distracted with some other pop up traffic and conflicts. When I scanned back to check on aircraft X he was approximately 2 nm inside ZFW ednas airspace. Ednas is just south of possum where they meet my airspace. I immediately called and handed off aircraft X and flashed him. The planes are supposed to autoflash to the adjoining sectors; but at certain portions of our airspace they do not autoflash like they are supposed to. It would be very helpful if the aircraft consistently auto flashed to the next sector like they are supposed to. When center takes the handoff on the auto flashed aircraft they flash on my scope and this serves as a reminder to make the hand off. I believe this event happened because I became too focused on other traffic and did not scan efficiently.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ABI TRACON Controller describes a situation where an aircraft under their control does not auto handoff and violates another Controller's sector; resulting in an airspace deviation.

Narrative: I radar identified Aircraft X that was a VFR departure off T23;a satellite airport in my airspace. I issued the IFR clearance and cleared him on course to DWH. T23 is approximately 18 nm inside my airspace and the aircraft was south east bound on course. I should've pointed him out the ZFW Possum sector; as he skirted their boundary; but I didn't notice until it was too late. I got distracted with some other pop up traffic and conflicts. When I scanned back to check on Aircraft X he was approximately 2 nm inside ZFW Ednas airspace. Ednas is just South of possum where they meet my airspace. I immediately called and handed off Aircraft X and flashed him. The planes are supposed to autoflash to the adjoining sectors; but at certain portions of our airspace they do not autoflash like they are supposed to. It would be very helpful if the aircraft consistently auto flashed to the next sector like they are supposed to. When center takes the handoff on the auto flashed aircraft they flash on my scope and this serves as a reminder to make the hand off. I believe this event happened because I became too focused on other traffic and did not scan efficiently.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.

Attributes
ACN	1237240
Time
Date	201502
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ABI.TRACON
State Reference	TX
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Approach Departure
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (mon) 5
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Abi TRACON controller describes a situation where an aircraft under their control does not auto handoff and violates another controller's sector; resulting in an airspace deviation.