Well here goes simply for the sake of I learnt about flying from that .
In the recent past somewhere in the uk .I was flying to an airfield I was relatively new too. I had not approached it from the route I was taking before. I usually fly a G1000 equipped aircraft however this was an analogue aircraft of a different type . I misidentified a mway jct and headed down the wrong one . I fell into the trap of making the features fit the map and not using a gross error check which would have told me that I should have been heading east not south. As a result I ended up well inside a major airports zone at 2000. Had I continued I would have flown straight across the final approach . AS it happened I became concerned and immediately turned north away from the zone , unfortuntely I had already done the damage causing an inbound airliner to take up a hold . The airport in question got me home . This is a somewhat abbreviated version but the meat is there . On landing I went to ATC and went over what had happened and why and contacted the duty atco at the airport .We had a lengthy conversation but there was no blame , sarcasm , chastisment just an informative debrief of what had gone wrong and how it affected the airport ops. Ppaerwork for the caa was raised . I submitted a chirp report and immediately booked a flight with an instructor and went over the route with specific references to local landmarks etc etc .
I also went and visited , at their invitation the atc unit in question to see my track and what actually occured . I have yet to hear from the CAA .I was told that I had done everything correctly , by a friend in the industry.Admitted what I had done debriefed it doen some refreshment training and publicised it for others to learn from ?
Yes not happy with what happened , im not really a low hours ppl and it shoudnt have happened , but it did and I learned from it . Maybe my attitude went someway to explain the caa's reponse , who knows
Jackals have your go Im ready for you, but please only criticise if you have never made a mistake