NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
Flight Instructor with student reported that during initial climb at a non-towered airport, another aircraft appeared behind them initiating a turn in the same direction requiring the Flight Instructor to stop their turn 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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Student and I completed a full stop landing in order for traffic to leave the area. Once there was room for us to take off we made our traffic call and stated our intentions to depart the area to the south via a left turn on departure. While climbing out and initiating our left turn south, we made another call to CTAF stating such. Immediately after starting the turn my student noticed another aircraft a couple hundred feet behind us that had just departed the runway as well, at this time we received a traffic warning from ADSB-In. We stopped our left turn and fly straight as it looked like the other aircraft was turning left as well. After a few seconds the other plane started a right hand turn and climbed away from us.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Conflict
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Airport · Human Factors
- 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 ↗.