<< >> NASA ASRS Report 1346837, April 2016

PA28 pilot reported using foreflight to find the tpa for 01G and inadvertently selected the altitude for peo due to the lack of familiarity with the foreflight a/FD tab. Peo has a 570 foot lower field elevation resulting in the traffic pattern being flown very low initially.

Attributes
ACN	1346837
Time
Date	201604
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	01G.Airport
State Reference	NY
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-28R Cherokee Arrow All Series
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Component
Aircraft Component	Electronic Flt Bag (EFB)
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 3 Flight Crew Total 1475 Flight Crew Type 600
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

Was using foreflight. Was on airport page for 01G and selected a/FD tab. Forgot it only goes to the page and not directly to the right airport. Was looking at the traffic pattern altitude for penn yan [peo] rather than perry warsaw and wound up quite low on downwind over houses. Adjusted best as I could and figured out my mistake once on the ground.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PA28 pilot reported using Foreflight to find the TPA for 01G and inadvertently selected the altitude for PEO due to the lack of familiarity with the Foreflight A/FD tab. PEO has a 570 foot lower field elevation resulting in the traffic pattern being flown very low initially.

Narrative: Was using Foreflight. Was on airport page for 01G and selected A/FD tab. Forgot it only goes to the page and not directly to the right airport. Was looking at the traffic pattern altitude for Penn Yan [PEO] rather than Perry Warsaw and wound up quite low on downwind over houses. Adjusted best as I could and figured out my mistake once on the ground.

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.