NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
A Flight Instructor reported a NMAC while turning base leg at a non towered airport.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
Verbatim from the de-identified NASA record. First-person account by the
reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
While in the pattern we heard a call from Aircraft Y that they were 5 to 10 miles north of the airport and going to enter a left downwind for Runway XX. Traffic pattern for Runway XX is right hand traffic. We were established in the pattern with a Piper Archer in front of us. Aircraft Y then entered the right downwind behind us after we called that we are doing right traffic. We turned base as the Archer was turning final and made our call. The next call made was us turning final. As we were doing this we saw Aircraft Y around 200 to 300 feet away heading right for us. We avoided each other and then they asked if we were on final. We asked if they had us in sight before and they said no. We told them they got a little close and they proceeded to tell us we were the ones who were close. We were established in the pattern and on final with them behind us, so we had the right of way. No other issues arose after this.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Conflict
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Environment - Non Weather Related · Human Factors · Procedure
- Primary Problem
- Human Factors
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.