HELI INSTRUCTOR PLT DEPARTS FROM TXWY OVERFLYING A TAXIING FIXED WING ACFT.

Date: 1993-07 · Aircraft: Helicopter · Phase: takeoff

Anomalies: conflict-ground-conflict|critical|conflict-nmac|deviation-discrepancy-procedural-other-unknown|other-unspecified

Synopsis

HELI INSTRUCTOR PLT DEPARTS FROM TXWY OVERFLYING A TAXIING FIXED WING ACFT.

Narrative

WHILE DEPARTING PARALLEL TXWY 18 (SBOUND) FIXED WING PLT CLAIMS THAT MY HELI OVERFLEW HIS TWIN ENG AIRPLANE AS IT TAXIED ON THE GND. THE PLT WAS UPSET BY THIS DEP AND MADE THIS CLR BY THREATENING ME OVER THE RADIO. I DO NOT BELIEVE I DID ANYTHING WRONG. HOWEVER; I SUBMIT THIS FORM AS STATEMENT OF TRUE FACT. WHEN I AND STUDENT WERE READY FOR TKOF FROM THE MIDDLE OF TXWY 18 IN ACFT X; AN AIRPLANE WAS TAXIING ON TXWY TO RWY 36. AT THE TIME; WIND WAS LIGHT OUT OF THE S AND I THOUGHT THE AIRPLANE WAS GOING TO USE RWY 36 FOR SOME REASON. I SAW NOBODY OVER SLOPE AREA WHICH IS S SIDE OF S HELIPADS AND OVER S HELIPADS. SO I STARTED TKOF FROM BEHIND HIM; BUT WITH KEEPING HIM IN SIGHT AND HAVE ENOUGH DISTANCE THAT WAS AT LEAST 70 FT; AND WE WERE CLBING RIGHT TURN OVER W OF S HELI PADS. THE ALT WHEN I PASSED HIM WAS APPROX 40 FT WITH CLBING R TURN TO THE R XWIND. AS I REACHED R XWIND; THE PLT IN AIRPLANE YELLED ON RADIO AND ASKED OUR NUMBER; SO I TOLD HIM OUR NUMBER. AS FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED MY TKOF WAS SAFE ENOUGH AND DID NOT FLY OVER THE AIRPLANE AT ALL. AT NO TIME DID MY ACFT OVERFLY (DIRECTLY) ANY FIXED WING ACFT ON THE TXWY AT FRENCH VALLEY ARPT; MURRIETA; CA; AS CLAIMED.

Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.