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A carbon cub pilot reported sunlight and blowing dust obscuring view of powerlines; resulted in taking evasive action.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1694382 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201910 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Light Sport Aircraft |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Single Pilot Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
| Miss Distance | Vertical 20 |
Narrative:
Flying along looking for landing locations during a back country flying. Came across a set of power lines while operating at a very low altitude and airspeed while making an approach to land on a small playa/lakebed. I made the determination that it would be more hazardous to make abrupt control input and try to either climb over the lines or turn to avoid them. I elected to increase power and abort my landing on the small playa and fly under the lines. So I'm reporting this here because I think this was a hazard coming this close to an incident. A contributing factor was the sunlight at the time was at my rear and creating a glare inside my cockpit that made the power lines difficult to see. Also there was wind blowing up playa dust and the dust accumulated on the windscreen causing a distraction reduction in visibility outside the cockpit. As a result of this close call; I terminated my flight early and returned to the flying.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A Carbon Cub pilot reported sunlight and blowing dust obscuring view of powerlines; resulted in taking evasive action.
Narrative: Flying along looking for landing locations during a back country flying. Came across a set of power lines while operating at a very low altitude and airspeed while making an approach to land on a small playa/lakebed. I made the determination that it would be more hazardous to make abrupt control input and try to either climb over the lines or turn to avoid them. I elected to increase power and abort my landing on the small playa and fly under the lines. So I'm reporting this here because I think this was a hazard coming this close to an incident. A contributing factor was the sunlight at the time was at my rear and creating a glare inside my cockpit that made the power lines difficult to see. Also there was wind blowing up playa dust and the dust accumulated on the windscreen causing a distraction reduction in visibility outside the cockpit. As a result of this close call; I terminated my flight early and returned to the flying.
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.