NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
Flight Instructor with student reported a NMAC event during ATC assigned altitude with a large transport aircraft. The flight Instructor took evasive action to avoid a collision.
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
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reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
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X, Y.
Approach told [me] to maintain 4500 ft. VFR and that traffic was 9 o clock. I was pilot flying a student back from a check ride. Student and I are both looking for the traffic, when an air carrier flight appears at 11 o clock in a nose high attitude so close we can see the pilots. We take evasive action by diving to the right and it looked like the air carrier pilot had an RA to level off so we immediately climbed. Approach said I was supposed to stay at 4500 we were at 4500 before evasive action was taken. I called tower to discuss.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- ATC Issue
- Conflict
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Human Factors · Procedure
- Primary Problem
- Procedure
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 ↗.