Assignment task:
You are flying your aircraft over the plains of Alabama when your Electronic Flight display begins flickering and then goes blank. You are flying in the clear and decide to fly a heading of due west while you troubleshoot the problem and figure out exactly where you are. After troubleshooting for about 10 minutes you can't get the electronic flight display working on your panel so you look outside to try to pick up some landmarks. You see a large football stadium and circle over the top of it and descend to take a better look. You see a lot of orange and blue in the stadium and suspect it may be the Auburn football stadium. As you descend to 1000'AGL you notice that it definitely is Jordan-Hare Stadium and you remember that they are playing Alabama that day. While you would like to watch a bit of the game from your vantage point, you decide you better land at the Columbus airport and get the airplane problem fixed. You contact the tower and land. While you are taxiing back, they say, "We have a report that you may have entered the Temporary Flight Restricted area over the Auburn stadium. Please give us a call after you shut down."
a) What will you reply? Why?
b) What do you intend to do after you shut down? Why?
c) After you shut down and are walking toward the terminal, a person approaches and asks, "Are you the pilot of this aircraft?" What will you reply?
d) The gentleman then shows his ID and says, "May I see your airman and medical certificates and the aircraft registration and airworthiness certificates, please?" What will you do and what will you say? Why?
e) The inspector, who is now holding your documents states, "I'm going to need to take these back to the office to make some copies. If you give me your address, I'll get them in the mail to you later today." What will you do/say?
f) The inspector ignores your response and heads toward the parking lot with your documents. What will you do? Why?
g) The inspector gives back your documents and then departs. What should you do now? Why?
h) A few days later you get a phone call and an FAA inspector identifies himself and says, " I've been assigned to investigate a report that you flew through a TFR over the Auburn stadium. What can you tell me about that?" What do you say? Why?
i) Two weeks later you receive a letter of investigation in the mail. Are you required to respond to this letter? If you do, can your response be used as evidence against you? What should you do?