Instructor and student pilot aboard a PA-28 climbing out of a class D area experienced a near midair...

Attributes
ACN	1123538
Time
Date	201310
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-28R Cherokee Arrow All Series
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Flight Plan	VFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Pilatus Undifferentiated
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Instructor
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 650 Flight Crew Type 400
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 400 Vertical 200

Narrative:

We were on initial climbout of our home airport with a commercial student and had just cleared our class D airspace. Had changed frequencies and made a traffic call on our air to air frequency. We were at 3;800 MSL and climbing when I saw a pilatus immediately in front of our piper which appeared to be on a head on course with our aircraft. I made an immediate right descending bank and the pilatus flew past us within 2 seconds. We had been looking for traffic the entire time but saw the pilatus very late as there was no apparent motion to our aircraft and it appeared that he was traveling at a relatively high airspeed.when we got back I telephoned our tower to see if a pilatus had landed at our airport; which it had not. After being put in touch with the manager of the area TRACON I was informed that the pilatus had landed at a nearby airport. The TRACON manager also informed me that the unverified radar showed that the two aircraft converged at 3;800 and 4;000 ft MSL; our piper being at 3;800 ft and climbing. He also stated that the pilatus had been given a traffic alert five miles before encountering our aircraft and been given a suggested heading of 280 which the pilot declined stating he had our aircraft in sight. The pilatus made no visible effort to avoid our aircraft.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Instructor and student pilot aboard a PA-28 climbing out of a Class D area experienced a NMAC with an opposite direction Pilatus inbound to a nearby airport.

Narrative: We were on initial climbout of our home airport with a commercial student and had just cleared our Class D airspace. Had changed frequencies and made a traffic call on our air to air frequency. We were at 3;800 MSL and climbing when I saw a Pilatus immediately in front of our Piper which appeared to be on a head on course with our aircraft. I made an immediate right descending bank and the Pilatus flew past us within 2 seconds. We had been looking for traffic the entire time but saw the Pilatus very late as there was no apparent motion to our aircraft and it appeared that he was traveling at a relatively high airspeed.When we got back I telephoned our Tower to see if a Pilatus had landed at our airport; which it had not. After being put in touch with the Manager of the area TRACON I was informed that the Pilatus had landed at a nearby airport. The TRACON Manager also informed me that the unverified radar showed that the two aircraft converged at 3;800 and 4;000 FT MSL; our Piper being at 3;800 FT and climbing. He also stated that the Pilatus had been given a traffic alert five miles before encountering our aircraft and been given a suggested heading of 280 which the pilot declined stating he had our aircraft in sight. The Pilatus made no visible effort to avoid our aircraft.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Instructor and student pilot aboard a PA-28 climbing out of a class D area experienced a near midair collision with an opposite direction pilatus inbound to a nearby airport.