Date: 201604
Local time of day: 1201-1800
Location: CMH.TRACON, OH
Flight conditions: VMC
Light: Daylight
Aircraft: Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operator: Personal
Operating under: Part 91
Flight plan: VFR
Mission: Passenger
Flight phase: Landing
Airspace: Class C ZZZ; Class E CMH
ATC / advisory: TRACON CMH; Tower ZZZ
Reporter organization: Personal
Reporter function: Approach
Reporter qualification: Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Human factors: Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown
Anomaly: ATC Issue All Types; Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Landing Without Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Detector: Person Air Traffic Control
When detected: In-flight
Result: Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Contributing factors: Airport; Airspace Structure; Procedure; Human Factors
Primary problem: Human Factors

Narrative: I was assigned to relieve the controller working Radar. I observed the controller was getting busy and my experience told me that on such a beautiful VFR day and the amount of inbound Flight Progress strips posted that the position would only get busier. I asked the supervisor if he wanted me to open another sector and he said 'No'. He said it wasn't going to get that busy. After the position relief; the position soon became complex and I needed the supervisor to coordinate for me and eventually he opened another sector.Aircraft X called me to land [a satellite airport]. He originally requested the left Runway and I assigned him the right runway due to a Medevac inbound to the left runway. I did not put in the data tag that Aircraft X was requesting a touch and go and coming back to my frequency. I failed to assign Aircraft X a frequency change to Tower. The controller in the Tower never tried to call Aircraft X. The Tower controller never tried to use the light gun to clear Aircraft X to land. The Tower controller never tried to call me at the Radar position to prompt me to change frequency with Aircraft X. Instead the Tower controller let Aircraft X land and touch and go on the right knowing this was going to be a pilot deviation. Aircraft X departed on a heading of 060 degrees and called me. Aircraft X had traffic off their left side which was a medical helicopter. The Tower controller I believe was surprised that Aircraft X did not land full stop and instead executed a touch and go. The Tower controller then turned the helicopter west and had a departure airborne off of an intersecting runway. I have no way of knowing the exact scenario that unfolded but I'm sure it was uncomfortable and likely unsafe. The Tower controller then called my supervisor on the coordination line and said Aircraft X had done a touch and go without a clearance and my supervisor asked the Tower controller if they attempted contact or tried a light gun. The answer was negative. The Tower controller in his arrogance to prove a point that I didn't change frequencies with Aircraft X caused a deliberate unsafe and reckless situation. The Tower controller in my opinion should be reprimanded for his action.The Tower controller has been known to disregard ATC procedures in favor of their own method of Air Traffic Control. This same controller deliberately and recklessly departed an air carrier jet climbing to 5;000 feet on a collision course with a Cessna at 4;000 feet that I had pointed out to him verbally and electronically this last fall. No manager seems to be willing to correct his actions. In my opinion the Tower controller should be reprimanded for his actions and be held to a higher standard than what he is allowed to get away with currently.Brief Tower controllers on professionalism and teach them to 'do the right thing' just as we were briefed in recurrent training. If an aircraft doesn't call you then you call him. It's that simple.




Synopsis: A CMH TRACON Controller failed to display 'touch and go' in an aircraft's data tag. The Controller forgot to issue communication change to the aircraft. The Tower Controller took no action to establish communications with the landing aircraft. The aircraft made a touch and go into confliction with a departing helicopter.