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A flight of two aircraft at 2;000 feet were told after landing at their destination they had violated smo airspace by 1 mile. Both aircraft had garmin GPS equipment and saw themselves remaining outside smo airspace.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1335964 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201602 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | SMO.Airport |
| State Reference | CA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Aircraft Low Wing 1 Eng Retractable Gear |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Route In Use | Direct |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Aircraft 2 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Aircraft Low Wing 1 Eng Retractable Gear |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Route In Use | Direct |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 1500 Flight Crew Type 700 |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25 Flight Crew Total 1560 Flight Crew Type 160 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Airspace Violation All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 5000 Vertical 500 |
Narrative:
I was told by smo tower that my flight of two violated the smo airspace by approximately one mile and that he had to deviate an aircraft. According to my garmin 430 and my grt EFIS I was close but clear of their airspace. I have both tis and adsb traffic with alerts and could see all the traffic but none ever were an issue or gave me a traffic alert.I could see traffic in the area however at no time were any of them an issue according to what my displays were showing. At one point of the flight where I noticed that an area of their airspace extended out from the normal circle I deviated the flight to the north to be sure to be well clear of the airspace. I believe that the radar that located me inside the airspace was inaccurate. I will admit however that it would have been prudent for me to contact the tower even for flights near their airspace and in the future will do so.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A flight of two aircraft at 2;000 feet were told after landing at their destination they had violated SMO airspace by 1 mile. Both aircraft had Garmin GPS equipment and saw themselves remaining outside SMO airspace.
Narrative: I was told by SMO tower that my flight of two violated the SMO airspace by approximately one mile and that he had to deviate an aircraft. According to my Garmin 430 and my GRT EFIS I was close but clear of their airspace. I have both TIS and ADSB traffic with alerts and could see all the traffic but none ever were an issue or gave me a traffic alert.I could see traffic in the area however at no time were any of them an issue according to what my displays were showing. At one point of the flight where I noticed that an area of their airspace extended out from the normal circle I deviated the flight to the north to be sure to be well clear of the airspace. I believe that the radar that located me inside the airspace was inaccurate. I will admit however that it would have been prudent for me to contact the tower even for flights near their airspace and in the future will do so.
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.