"Joe Johnson" wrote in message
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Me: 240 hr PP-ASEL, minding my own business, doing touch & goes at an
untowered field, and scrupulously calling my position in every leg of the
pattern.

The offender: pilot of a small Citation jet.

I saw the Citation taxiing toward the active as I was downwind. I watched
the plane carefully (suspiciously) as there was never any transmission on
the CTAF frequency. I listened to departure on my second radio; he/she
wasn't on that frequency either. When I turned base, the Citation was at
the hold short line adjacent to the active threshold. As I was on 1/4 to
1/2 mile final, the Citation suddenly took the runway and started the
takeoff roll; nary a radio call was heard. Prepared for this, I did a
360, landed, and got the tail number from an airport employee.

Should I report this to the FAA? If so, how? When in the course of an
aviation career does someone become so complacent that they don't say
"boo" before taking an active runway?


A runway incursion is "any occurrence in the airport runway environment
involving an aircraft, vehicle, person, or object on the ground that creates
a collision hazard or results in a loss of required separation with an
aircraft taking off, intending to take off, landing, or intending to land."
It's a non-towered field so there's no separation requirement. Was there a
genuine collision hazard? Would you have collided had you not done the 360?