Emergency paperwork

[Ron Garret]

I declared my first ever emergency yesterday after encountering
unexpected ice. I only accumulated about 1/4 inch so it wasn't that big
a deal, but I lost my engine gauges (I fly an SR22), which included my
OAT, so I went ahead and declared so I could descend below the MEA to
shed the ice before anything else went wrong. About a minute after
declaring I broke out into VMC.

My question is: is there any FAA paperwork I need to do? I already
filed an ASRS form.

Thanks,
rg

[Steven P. McNicoll[_2_]]

Ron Garret wrote:
>
> I declared my first ever emergency yesterday after encountering
> unexpected ice. I only accumulated about 1/4 inch so it wasn't that
> big a deal, but I lost my engine gauges (I fly an SR22), which
> included my OAT, so I went ahead and declared so I could descend
> below the MEA to shed the ice before anything else went wrong. About
> a minute after declaring I broke out into VMC.
>
> My question is: is there any FAA paperwork I need to do? I already
> filed an ASRS form.
>

You have to notify ATC as soon as possible, I assume you did that. After
the fact you're required to submit a report if the Administrator requests
one, that's unlikely.

[Ron Garret]

In article >,
"Steven P. McNicoll" > wrote:

> Ron Garret wrote:
> >
> > I declared my first ever emergency yesterday after encountering
> > unexpected ice. I only accumulated about 1/4 inch so it wasn't that
> > big a deal, but I lost my engine gauges (I fly an SR22), which
> > included my OAT, so I went ahead and declared so I could descend
> > below the MEA to shed the ice before anything else went wrong. About
> > a minute after declaring I broke out into VMC.
> >
> > My question is: is there any FAA paperwork I need to do? I already
> > filed an ASRS form.
> >
>
> You have to notify ATC as soon as possible, I assume you did that.

It didn't even occur to me at the time that I *could* declare an
emergency without notifying ATC :-)

> After
> the fact you're required to submit a report if the Administrator requests
> one, that's unlikely.

Thanks!

rg

[Mike]

"Ron Garret" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Steven P. McNicoll" > wrote:
>
>> Ron Garret wrote:
>> >
>> > I declared my first ever emergency yesterday after encountering
>> > unexpected ice. I only accumulated about 1/4 inch so it wasn't that
>> > big a deal, but I lost my engine gauges (I fly an SR22), which
>> > included my OAT, so I went ahead and declared so I could descend
>> > below the MEA to shed the ice before anything else went wrong. About
>> > a minute after declaring I broke out into VMC.
>> >
>> > My question is: is there any FAA paperwork I need to do? I already
>> > filed an ASRS form.
>> >
>>
>> You have to notify ATC as soon as possible, I assume you did that.
>
> It didn't even occur to me at the time that I *could* declare an
> emergency without notifying ATC :-)

You can, but if you don't have your mic keyed, only your passengers are
likely to notice.

[Jon Woellhaf]

Why did you lose your engine gauges?

"Ron Garret" > wrote in message
...
>I declared my first ever emergency yesterday after encountering
> unexpected ice. I only accumulated about 1/4 inch so it wasn't that big
> a deal, but I lost my engine gauges (I fly an SR22), which included my
> OAT, so I went ahead and declared so I could descend below the MEA to
> shed the ice before anything else went wrong. About a minute after
> declaring I broke out into VMC.
>
> My question is: is there any FAA paperwork I need to do? I already
> filed an ASRS form.
>
> Thanks,
> rg

[Ron Garret]

In article >,
"Jon Woellhaf" > wrote:

> Why did you lose your engine gauges?
>
> "Ron Garret" > wrote in message
> ...
> >I declared my first ever emergency yesterday after encountering
> > unexpected ice. I only accumulated about 1/4 inch so it wasn't that big
> > a deal, but I lost my engine gauges (I fly an SR22), which included my
> > OAT, so I went ahead and declared so I could descend below the MEA to
> > shed the ice before anything else went wrong. About a minute after
> > declaring I broke out into VMC.
> >
> > My question is: is there any FAA paperwork I need to do? I already
> > filed an ASRS form.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > rg

Probably ice accumulating somewhere and shorting something out, but I
don't really know and probably never will. I lost the electronic engine
gauges, not the mechanical backups. But that means I lost my OAT, so
despite being in VMC I decided to divert so that I could take stock,
file a PIREP, get a weather update, and unwind a bit. Once on the
ground I power-cycled the avionics but the problem persisted. But when
I tried again about 20 minutes later it had fixed itself. (Either that
or the FBO had an incredibly good maintenance department. :-)

rg