You must file the NASA report within 10 days of the event,
you said last month, so you missed the deadline for legal
protection. Hope they didn't report you.




"C Booth" wrote in message
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|I was flying out of VGT last month (North Las Vegas)
heading back to
| SLC in an Aztec after a great round of Golf. After
getting VFR
| clearance from ground to MMM (Mormon Mesa Vortac) which is
ENE of
| Vegas. Cleared for takeoff and given a heading from the
tower, then
| handed off to Nellis aproach. The controler gives me
heading and asks
| intention and sounds like she has marbles in her mouth. I
ask her to
| repeat instructions and finally get her instructions read
back. I am
| squawking a descreat code and continuing to follow
instructions from
| Nellis getting vectored out of the way of inbound F-18's
and even a
| B-2. All of a sudden out of the blue she calls me and
asks me if I
| have class B clearance. I gulp hard a couple of times, in
all the
| vectors and hand offs I realize that I have not received
clearance...I
| fess up and say noooo. She says "Well, you're right smack
in the
| middle of Class B airspace". That's it, no instructions.
I say,
| "Well..., can I get clearance now, or do you want me to go
somewhere?"
| She gives me the clearance. Whew, first time that has
ever happened
| to me. I am usually very careful not to bust airspace.
Needless to
| say I was embarassed but in other instances where I have
been vectored
| into Class B, such as in this instance, I have always been
given the
| clearance. I know that it is my responsibility to get the
clearance
| before flying into the airspace, but if they are giving
vectors to
| penetrate the airspace, are they at fault as well? Maybe
I should
| file a NASA report just to be safe, what do you think?
|
| Just thought an aviation based thread might be good for
the group.
|
| Cbooth
| SEL MEL Instrument