A pilot with a failed transmitter did not cancel his flight plan after landing. He was called by air...

Attributes
ACN	837428
Time
Date	200905
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft High Wing 1 Eng Fixed Gear
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	VHF
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 40 Flight Crew Total 2400 Flight Crew Type 200
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

Narrative:

I started the trip on an IFR flight plan. At close to an enroute VOR I canceled the IFR flight plan and told the controller I was going to descend to 5500 ft and proceed VFR. He said if I wanted flight following to keep the same squawk code and that altitude was at my discretion. Everything went fine until I tried to call approach to advise them that I needed to start my decent to my home private airstrip and could cancel flight following. Both of my radio transmitters would not work. I put my squawk code to 7600. The next transmission I received from approach was radar contact lost and that service was terminated. I didn't think any more about it and landed. Later I received a call from air force rescue to check that I was ok because they had called my filed destination and I had not landed there. I use this airport as the destination because I cannot file to my private strip.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A pilot with a failed transmitter did not cancel his flight plan after landing. He was called by Air Force flight safety trackers to verify his safe arrival.

Narrative: I started the trip on an IFR flight plan. At close to an enroute VOR I canceled the IFR flight plan and told the Controller I was going to descend to 5500 FT and proceed VFR. He said if I wanted flight following to keep the same squawk code and that altitude was at my discretion. Everything went fine until I tried to call approach to advise them that I needed to start my decent to my home private airstrip and could cancel flight following. Both of my radio transmitters would not work. I put my squawk code to 7600. The next transmission I received from approach was radar contact lost and that service was terminated. I didn't think any more about it and landed. Later I received a call from Air Force rescue to check that I was ok because they had called my filed destination and I had not landed there. I use this airport as the destination because I cannot file to my private strip.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

A pilot with a failed transmitter did not cancel his flight plan after landing. He was called by air force flight safety trackers to verify his safe arrival.