ASRS 2061512
ACN 2061512 · 2023-12 · Light Sport Aircraft
Flight Instructor reported a NMAC after a touch and go at a non-towered airport and took evasive action to avoid a collision.
Pilot narrative
Verbatim, de-identified by NASA. Placeholders: ZZZ,
X, Y.
Practicing landings with a student pilot. Upon turning final, I noticed Aircraft Y turned in final very close behind us. We performed our touch and go, and Aircraft Y closed the gap and also performed a touch and go just after we left the runway. As we climbed out, I noticed they had accelerated, and were now on top of our location, and our Garmin avionics annunciated a traffic alert, at our altitude. I immediately pulled engine power and put our aircraft in a descending attitude to evade a potential mid air collision. We were ~700 ft. AGL. The pilot of Aircraft Y had not given himself adequate spacing before turning final, and did no actions to remedy his poor spacing. This was a very near miss, and we had limited options to evade given our low altitude and limited performance capability as a light sport aircraft.
NASA classification · Anomalies
- Conflict
NASA classification · Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Human Factors
- Primary Problem
- Human Factors
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