Safety Center · Close Calls · NASA ASRS
ACN 945147What the Reporter Described
Report 1 | Narrative: [Student] pilot in command wanted to practice landing. Tower and [student] pilot in command talked as if they were on cell phones. [Student] pilot in command did not know right or left base and drifted into my landing area. Tower and [student] pilot in command would not stop talking! I made an emergency descent and landed. I had to notify Tower that I was at the END of the runway and could I get off the runway! My passengers averted a crash. Gainesville Tower and [student] pilot in command need less radio time together so landing aircraft have radio time as well.
Report 1 | Synopsis: A pilot on approach to GNV made an emergency landing following a NMAC with a student pilot whom ATC was talking with to the exclusion of other aircraft in the landing pattern.