Small Aircraft; Low Wing; 1 Eng; Fixed Gear
Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 8; Flight Crew Total 1077; Flight Crew Type 1077
Distraction; Confusion; Situational Awareness; Workload; Training / Qualification
Conflict Ground Conflict; Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Runway
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Airport; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
While taxiing on Taxiway E to Runway 31; I saw signage and verified the feature on the airport diagram as the ILS hold position. From the positioning of the other taxiway/runway hold position lines; I expected the hold position signage to be around the corner of the taxiway. I stopped the aircraft on the corner when no hold position signage was visually identified between the taxiway corner and Runway 13. I may have over-ran the hold position signage while checking the airport diagram to verify the ILS hold; aircraft instruments or watching for the traffic in the pattern since I do not remember passing one feature (signage) prior to rounding the corner. The aircraft was stopped in a position; more or less; in line with the taxiway where it was no hazard to aircraft in the pattern or on the runway. ATC waved off the aircraft in the pattern that had turned on final per policy. ATC reported the stopped aircraft was in-line with the church across the highway which verifies the location on the corner at the end of the taxiway. Contributing factors [were]: pilot performance; failure to see signage most likely due to other piloting related tasks; i.e.; checking airport diagrams; instrument scans; and visual ID of traffic in pattern -- distraction. Corrective action: better scanning technique [and] familiarity with airport quirks (non-standard items). Pilot performance: good judgment in stopping aircraft in a safe location after identification that the hold position line was not where it was expected to be in the standard configuration. Contributing factor: Taxiway/runway hold position and signage not in a standardized (expected) location compared to other runways/taxiways. Corrective action: Maintain standardized taxi/runway configurations as much as possible. Publish non-standard configurations in facility directories/publications.
A pilot reported a runway incursion at JLN Runway 31 after failing to recognize the runway critical hold line because of the line's distance from the runway approach end.