A pilot executed a go around on approach to mvy because of low visibility and entered turbulence whi...

Attributes
ACN	961514
Time
Date	201107
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	MVY.Airport
State Reference	MA
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft Low Wing 1 Eng Retractable Gear
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 12 Flight Crew Total 850 Flight Crew Type 730
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

Departed to mvy to join family on vacation. Flight normal with low cloud layer over mvy. Was on approach in low ceiling and announced was abandoning approach and returning to home base because of advice from tower that ceiling was very low; I had asked. Suddenly hit turbulence (seemed like a squall-like phenomena) and found myself in an unusual attitude with control problems. Ultimately recovered but in doing so deviated from course; rather unsettled. When recovered; including composure; was handed back to cape cod center and given clearance back to home base; where I returned without incident. On reflection I 1) should not have launched into such marginal weather and 2) should not have been influenced to continue approach by earlier planes reporting it had picked up runway lights.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A pilot executed a go around on approach to MVY because of low visibility and entered turbulence which caused vertigo; loss of aircraft control and subsequent return to normal flight while diverting to his departure airport.

Narrative: Departed to MVY to join family on vacation. Flight normal with low cloud layer over MVY. Was on approach in low ceiling and announced was abandoning approach and returning to home base because of advice from Tower that ceiling was very low; I had asked. Suddenly hit turbulence (seemed like a squall-like phenomena) and found myself in an unusual attitude with control problems. Ultimately recovered but in doing so deviated from course; rather unsettled. When recovered; including composure; was handed back to Cape Cod Center and given clearance back to home base; where I returned without incident. On reflection I 1) should not have launched into such marginal weather and 2) should not have been influenced to continue approach by earlier planes reporting it had picked up runway lights.

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 executed a go around on approach to mvy because of low visibility and entered turbulence which caused vertigo; loss of aircraft control and subsequent return to normal flight while diverting to his departure airport.