Helicopter pilot reported a near midair collision with a fixed wing aircraft that was not monitoring...

Attributes
ACN	1512953
Time
Date	201801
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	Helicopter
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 135
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Piper Single Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 158 Flight Crew Total 3331
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 300 Vertical 300

Narrative:

Flying towards lighthouse just offshore at 700 ft; I made a radio call on CTAF that I was nearing the lighthouse. I heard a response from a helicopter coming from the opposite direction reporting bad weather. I announced that I would be making a course reversal. As I turned left 180 degrees; I saw what looked like a piper cherokee just above to our right about 300 ft above and 300 ft to the right appearing to be making a climbing bank to the right to avoid us.both I and the helicopter that was approaching from behind me now tried to make radio contact with the airplane. He was not on frequency.I feel that if the airplane had been on frequency; I would not have been surprised to see him; and he would not have been surprised to see me turn; which would have resulted in a much safer interaction.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Helicopter pilot reported a NMAC with a fixed wing aircraft that was not monitoring the local frequency.

Narrative: Flying towards lighthouse just offshore at 700 ft; I made a radio call on CTAF that I was nearing the lighthouse. I heard a response from a helicopter coming from the opposite direction reporting bad weather. I announced that I would be making a course reversal. As I turned left 180 degrees; I saw what looked like a Piper Cherokee just above to our right about 300 ft above and 300 ft to the right appearing to be making a climbing bank to the right to avoid us.Both I and the helicopter that was approaching from behind me now tried to make radio contact with the airplane. He was not on frequency.I feel that if the airplane had been on frequency; I would not have been surprised to see him; and he would not have been surprised to see me turn; which would have resulted in a much safer interaction.

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.

Helicopter pilot reported a near midair collision with a fixed wing aircraft that was not monitoring the local frequency.