Small Aircraft; Low Wing; 1 Eng; Fixed Gear
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Other / Unknown
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Runway
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors
Whilst training a CPCIT in LOCAL1; with multiple traffic inbound; my trainee had a very good grasp of the situation and was performing very; very well. Our three aircraft inbound had each other in sight and were following each other appropriately with good spacing in between. We turned our attention away from the runway to a Cessna departing headed northwest bound which was conflicting with an aircraft inbound from the North. Suddenly we noticed a [small low wing aircraft] on Runway 22L slowing down to exit. We mentally cycled through the aircraft under our control to determine if we'd inadvertently misplaced an aircraft. We heard the Local 2 Controller get our attention identifying the unknown aircraft on our Runway (22L) as theirs. I'm really not sure how 4 controllers working the two parallel runways; ie; 2x CPCIT and 2x trainers managed to lose track of the aircraft because both positions were quite busy. This is at least the 5th or 6th time that the local flight school has landed on the wrong runway even after being assigned the correct runway by ATC. I've gone so far as to add additional phraseology to pilots operating for the flight school saying; 'STAY ON or REMAIN ON Runway 22R (or 4L)' when the pilots inform us that they are finished with their touch-n-go or taxi-back operations.
Falcon Field has two runways 22R and 22L. I was doing full stop landing to the ramp. Approximately 4 NM; Tower said 'aircraft on base you are number two; Runway 22R cleared to land' and 'verify you are full stop' I did the readback and I tried to see traffic on base. There was just one traffic on Runway 22L base; and no one on 22R base or final. So I followed the traffic on 22L base and I landed safely. I think there were three reasons for this mishap:1-At Falcon Field for full stop landings we generally use 22L.2-There was just one traffic to runway 22L. 3-There was 10 KTS wind and I focused on landing.So I got confused and I landed on the wrong Runway 22L. I know this is my responsibility and this should not have happened. I learned from this mistake and it will not happen again.
The Local Controller involved and the pilot of a light aircraft describe a landing on the wrong runway at FFZ.