PA28 INSTRUCTOR PLT WHILE GIVING ENG OUT INSTRUCTION ENCOUNTERS ANOTHER ACFT ON FINAL AND TAKES EVASIVE ACTION.
Synopsis
PA28 INSTRUCTOR PLT WHILE GIVING ENG OUT INSTRUCTION ENCOUNTERS ANOTHER ACFT ON FINAL AND TAKES EVASIVE ACTION.
Narrative
WHILE ON A SIMULATED ENG FAILURE TO A STRAIGHT-IN LNDG AT RWY 2L1; I CALLED LARIMORE TFC 5 MI OUT AND ANNOUNCED MY POS (5 MI W; 3500 FT DSNDING) AND INTENTIONS. PA28 ANNOUNCED THEY WERE ALSO AT LARIMORE; OVER THE FIELD AT 2400 FT GOING TO BE ENTERING A L DOWNWIND FOR RWY 12. 2L1 RWY 12 IS A R-HAND PATTERN; SO I VERIFIED THIS WITH THE OTHER ACFT THAT THEY WERE IN FACT ON A L DOWNWIND FOR RWY 12. PA28 CONFIRMED THEY WERE OVERFLYING THE FIELD AND ENTERING A L DOWNWIND FOR RWY 12. MY STUDENT AND I BEGAN SCANNING THE AREA WHERE THE TFC RPTED IN ORDER TO FIND IT. I ANNOUNCED MY POS AGAIN AT 2.5 MI W OF THE FIELD AT 2500 FT; AS WELL AS INTENTIONS TO LAND STRAIGHT-IN RWY 12. AT THIS TIME; PA28 SAID; 'WE HAVE LARIMORE TFC IN SIGHT;' AND PASSED ROUGHLY 100 YARDS OFF MY R WING. THIS PLACED THEM ON A HIGH; EXTENDED R DOWNWIND FOR RWY 12. THE LNDG TOOK PLACE WITHOUT INCIDENT. CONTRIBUTING TO THIS WAS THAT MY STUDENT AND I CONCENTRATED OUR SCAN ON THE AREA OF THE L DOWNWIND WHERE THE TFC RPTED ITSELF; AND OMITTED THE REST OF THE SKY. WE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE SEEN THE TFC EARLIER HAD WE CONTINUED TO SCAN THE REST OF THE SKY. ALSO; AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT THERE WAS TFC AT LARIMORE; AND NOT HAVING THEM IN SIGHT; I SHOULD'VE BROKEN OFF THE SIMULATED ENG FAILURE AND ENTERED THE PATTERN IN A STANDARD DIRECTION; RATHER THAN THE STRAIGHT-IN WE WERE ATTEMPTING. HAD I DONE THIS; THE CONFLICT MAY NOT HAVE TAKEN PLACE. I WOULD NOTE; HOWEVER; THAT PROPER POS RPTING IS ESSENTIAL WHILE IN THE TFC PATTERN. BASED ON THE RPTS OF PA28'S POS; I FIGURED WE WOULD BE INTO THE ARPT BEFORE HE EXITED HIS DOWNWIND; WHICH IS WHY I CONTINUED THE APCH. HOWEVER; DUE TO HIM IMPROPERLY RPTING HIS POS; THIS INCIDENT OCCURRED.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.