NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
A flight instructor reported a NMAC while on final approach to a non-towered airport with an aircraft landing opposite direction not communicating on CTAF.
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.
On a time building flight, we were going from ZZZ TO AXV, about 7 miles NW from AXV we got off flight following and switched to AXV CTAF and made our initial radio call to land Runway 08 for 45’ left downwind entry. Winds were 080 roughly 8knots. We made standard radio calls 5 miles out, joining downwind and base, final. As we turned final we had another aircraft indicating same altitude 500agl, 1400MSL, ESE 1 1/2 to 2 miles on ADSB, we hadn’t heard any radio call from that aircraft, but we were expecting him to be a small aircraft that’s probably going to cross midfield at a lower altitude that usual, we had been monitoring as we were entering on downwind and the other traffic was -300 TPA (Traffic Pattern Altitude) about 5 miles ESE. As we continued our descent on final we saw the other traffic on final on the opposite end of the runway we were landing on, other traffic on final on Runway 26. I immediately executed a go around climbing to the right, we were about 200agl when we did our go around. Upon going around traffic looked like they were also going around or looked like they were targeted at us but shortly we saw them on the runway, not sure if it was a illusion or other aircraft initially leveled off or thought about going around. We made an immediate turn to the SE before and once we verified traffic was on ground and no factor we rejoined the left pattern and climbed out, departing to SW
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Conflict
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Airport · Human Factors · Procedure
- Primary Problem
- Procedure
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