Do I file a nasa report?

Posted by Adept_Cook2719@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 107 comments

I’ve had my ppl for 3 months (80 hours) now and I had a flight that went wrong. I was departing the sw facing runway, and I stupidly decided to depart the area to the east from the crosswind at around 300 ft below pattern altitude as I climbed to pattern altitude.This resulted in a near miss with traffic remaining in the pattern about 1-.5 miles (gps said 2 miles). Eventually we had each other in sight and I apologized on the ctaf. I continued ,y flight and we ended up arriving at the fob at the same time. I got a very strong lecture from the cfi which summed up to review the proper departure procedures and don’t let it happen again. They said that it should have been reported but they didn’t want to put a mark on my