PA28 flight instructor reported an near midair collision resulted when he and his student flew a lef...

Attributes
ACN	1423902
Time
Date	201702
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Instructor Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 558 Flight Crew Type 250
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Track / Heading All Types
Miss Distance	Horizontal 300 Vertical 200

Narrative:

While coming in from the southwest tower gave us instructions to enter a right downwind runway xxr. For some reason in my brain it processed as left downwind runway xxr. While this was happening I was with a beginner student and was talking and explaining about procedures and checklist that needed to be done the whole time from 10 nm out till a half mile when the tower called to confirm that we were on a right downwind. Taking a break from talking to the student; I responded confirming that we were. After a few seconds I realized that we were indeed not and on a left downwind and immediately called tower and admitted the mistake. At this moment an aircraft on the departure called that they had to deviate. I noticed the plane and determined that we were not on a collision course. To my view the plane was 100 yards away 200-300 ft lower and traveling in the opposite direction not on a collision course. After the other plane called to deviate tower instructed us to turn left to enter the right downwind runway xxr after we had already passed the other plane.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PA28 flight instructor reported an NMAC resulted when he and his student flew a left pattern instead of the cleared right pattern.

Narrative: While coming in from the southwest Tower gave us instructions to enter a right downwind Runway XXR. For some reason in my brain it processed as left downwind Runway XXR. While this was happening I was with a beginner student and was talking and explaining about procedures and checklist that needed to be done the whole time from 10 nm out till a half mile when the tower called to confirm that we were on a right downwind. Taking a break from talking to the student; I responded confirming that we were. After a few seconds I realized that we were indeed not and on a left downwind and immediately called Tower and admitted the mistake. At this moment an aircraft on the departure called that they had to deviate. I noticed the plane and determined that we were not on a collision course. To my view the plane was 100 yards away 200-300 ft lower and traveling in the opposite direction not on a collision course. After the other plane called to deviate tower instructed us to turn left to enter the right downwind Runway XXR after we had already passed the other plane.

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PA28 flight instructor reported an near midair collision resulted when he and his student flew a left pattern instead of the cleared right pattern.