Will this go on my record? Will I ever have an opportunity to view the tapes? (liveatc feed for memphis is down). My question is: what is going to happen to me? What is the next step in the process? (I filled out a NASA report immediately after calling tracon). What was interesting is that we never heard ATC call this particular plane before chewing him out (usually I hear the unanswered calls). We also heard another pilot get chewed out 5 minutes prior for 'not listening'. It's surprising we heard this and not THREE calls with our tail number. We heard the other plane respond and say that he had us on TCAS. To further add credibility to our case (as I'm sure many of you are assuming we simply weren't listening), we heard the ATC call to the traffic we came in proximity with. Nonetheless, I see this as an humbling opportunity for further improvement. I'm hoping an investigation will find issues on part of the controller or with equipment failure.

Given the fact that I've never had a track record of not listening to approach, and that I had another experienced pilot with me to vouch my story, I find it VERY difficult to believe that we simply 'overheard' 3 radio calls. He mentioned that he had put 'possible radio issues' as a probable cause on the paperwork. He was fairly reasonable about the whole thing and was willing to hear our side of the story (I had the student on speaker phone with me). I gave him my name, address, and phone number. He told me that due to the automatic incident reporting, they already sent in the paperwork. I called the number on the ground and spoke to the supervisor of the Memphis tracon. About 15 seconds later, he informs us of a possible pilot deviation. I politely told him that I'm flying with another experienced commercial pilot, both of us were listening, and we did not hear a single call for us. About 30 seconds after the incident, ATC calls and asks us why we didn't respond to their calls. Certainly, I miss radio calls from time-to-time, especially in a training environment, but I've always made a conscious effort to listen to ALL radio chatter, not just for my callsign, in order to gain situational awareness I've NEVER been one of the pilots chastised by ATC for not listening. WE NEED YOU TO LISTEN, WE'VE ALREADY CALLED YOU THREE TIMES.' We immediately cranked it over into a right turn towards the East and after the situation was over my student and I looked at each other-he was just as dumbfounded as I was. The controller then says something along the lines of, 'Duchess XXX, turn eastbound immediately, traffic less than 1/2 mile. At one point during the flight, we hear ATC angrily say, 'Mem Appch, Duchess XXX.' Confused as to why he's frustrated (we had been listening and hadn't received any prior calls) I responded, 'Duchess XXX, go ahead'. The student was actively manning the radios and I was monitoring the radios, as well. While in the air, we were diligently monitoring the radio frequencies. Today, I was flying with a student who was working on his Commercial Multi-engine conversion (currently holds a Kenyan license). We do most of our flight training in or just below the Memphis Class B airspace. See LiveATC.I'm a flight instructor in the Memphis, TN area.

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