Troubling story and some questions

Andy wrote:

Never mind my wings came off!


You missed the point. In this scenario the advice to declare an
emergency on the appropriate frequency and state your intentions/present
actions will at least keep you legal with regard to that portion of the
flight. There may still be some follow-up, of course, and you are
answerable for certain airmanship considerations which put you in that
situation to start with, but you will have done what you can to keep the
situation from being magnified by traffic conflicts. You can't have your
cake and eat it too, with regard to the regs and proper procedures, but
the best course of action involves doing the right pilot-thing NOW,
declaring an emergency as soon as possible, and filing an ASRS report
promptly after the flight. I've filed lots of them. And, I've never
waited for anything to come off the airplane prior to taking the action
needed, and then announcing the situation to ATC when reasonable to do so.

You are not asking for permission--you are telling them how it is where
you are and what you are doing about it, in order to keep them in the
loop. They will do what they can with other aircraft in the vicinity
that don't happen to be falling out of the sky at that particular moment
in order to minimize any conflicts.

_File an ASRS promptly_ after any unusual incident. It helps the system,
and it helps YOU.



Jack