Small aircraft pilot reports departing runway 8 at bwc and noting a cloud of dust at the opposite en...

Narrative:

I was in the middle of a day of working an aircraft with no radio. Wind was from the southeast. I took a load at brawley (bwc) and taxied to runway 08. I stopped at the hold-short line; checked the approach to both ends of the runway. I pulled out onto the runway; lined up on centerline; set flaps and engine condition lever for takeoff; and locked the tailwheel. I then began the takeoff roll. A few hundred feet into the roll; I observed a cloud of dust from the north side of the east end of the runway. I then saw a light tan colored cessna 150 or 152 had been on runway 26 and was now in the dirt on the north across from the easternmost taxiway. As I was already near rotation speed when I saw the cessna more than 1;000 ft away; I became airborne; sidestepped to the right (south) and continued departure; passing well clear of the other aircraft. The cessna must have pulled onto the runway while I was setting takeoff configuration; or perhaps I failed to see him on the base to final turn. The dirty white and tan color of the other aircraft blended in with the desert terrain around brawley. The sun was near the horizon at my back; which would have affected the other pilot's view. In any case; we both failed to see the other until we were both on the runway in opposite directions. The lack of an aviation radio in the aircraft I was flying also contributed to the loss of situational awareness.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Small aircraft pilot reports departing Runway 8 at BWC and noting a cloud of dust at the opposite end of the runway on the north side. As the reporter rotates and side steps to the right a C152 is detected in the dirt having aborted a landing or takeoff to avoid a collision.

Narrative: I was in the middle of a day of working an aircraft with no radio. Wind was from the southeast. I took a load at Brawley (BWC) and taxied to Runway 08. I stopped at the hold-short line; checked the approach to both ends of the runway. I pulled out onto the runway; lined up on centerline; set flaps and engine condition lever for takeoff; and locked the tailwheel. I then began the takeoff roll. A few hundred feet into the roll; I observed a cloud of dust from the north side of the east end of the runway. I then saw a light tan colored Cessna 150 or 152 had been on Runway 26 and was now in the dirt on the north across from the easternmost taxiway. As I was already near rotation speed when I saw the Cessna more than 1;000 FT away; I became airborne; sidestepped to the right (south) and continued departure; passing well clear of the other aircraft. The Cessna must have pulled onto the runway while I was setting takeoff configuration; or perhaps I failed to see him on the base to final turn. The dirty white and tan color of the other aircraft blended in with the desert terrain around Brawley. The sun was near the horizon at my back; which would have affected the other pilot's view. In any case; we both failed to see the other until we were both on the runway in opposite directions. The lack of an aviation radio in the aircraft I was flying also contributed to the loss of situational awareness.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.

Attributes
ACN	1146576
Time
Date	201401
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	BWC.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 137
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Cessna 152
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120 Flight Crew Total 2700 Flight Crew Type 1375
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Critical
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200 Vertical 75

Small aircraft pilot reports departing runway 8 at bwc and noting a cloud of dust at the opposite end of the runway on the north side. As the reporter rotates and side steps to the right a C152 is detected in the dirt having aborted a landing or takeoff to avoid a collision.