NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
A light sport aircraft pilot reported a NMAC with an aircraft overtaking them on initial climb from 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.
I am an instrument rated private pilot for SEL working on my commercial rating. Upon completed a touch-and-go operation at SPK (Runway 12), we were on the departure leg at 500' AGL when our traffic advisory came on along with a new aircraft on our ADSB which appeared to be right on-top of us at our same altitude, but I knew it was Aircraft Y that had just started holding short of the runway as we turned final for our touch-and-go. (It was the same tail number). I passed off the controls to my CFI so I could take a video of the occurrence, just as Aircraft Y overtook us to our right by not more than 300' at our same altitude. Again, never making a call.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Conflict
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Airport · 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 ↗.