C172 pilot reported a near midair collision on final at a non-towered airport; resulting in a go aro...

Attributes
ACN	1586267
Time
Date	201810
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	DA20 Undifferentiated
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 27 Flight Crew Total 208 Flight Crew Type 163
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200 Vertical 0

Narrative:

I was entering the pattern at ZZZ to land flying a C172. I crossed the runway at 1000ft MSL to enter the right downwind for runway xx which uses right traffic. As I crossed over the runway there was aircraft Y; a DA20; executing a low pass over the runway. I started my turn into the downwind and he started his turn to crosswind and then to downwind. I looked back and he was closer to me then I was comfortable with so I speed up a little bit. Then when I turned final I received a traffic alert saying he was at my six less than one mile. I asked my passenger to watch him and she told me he looked like he was 200 feet from us and looked like he was about to pull up alongside us. I chose to go around rather than risk him landing on top of us. I also chose to execute the go-around because he never acknowledged my position in the pattern during his radio calls he acknowledged the two aircraft in front of me.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 pilot reported a NMAC on final at a non-towered airport; resulting in a go around.

Narrative: I was entering the pattern at ZZZ to land flying a C172. I crossed the runway at 1000ft MSL to enter the right downwind for runway XX which uses right traffic. As I crossed over the runway there was Aircraft Y; a DA20; executing a low pass over the runway. I started my turn into the downwind and he started his turn to crosswind and then to downwind. I looked back and he was closer to me then I was comfortable with so I speed up a little bit. Then when I turned final I received a traffic alert saying he was at my six less than one mile. I asked my passenger to watch him and she told me he looked like he was 200 feet from us and looked like he was about to pull up alongside us. I chose to go around rather than risk him landing on top of us. I also chose to execute the go-around because he never acknowledged my position in the pattern during his radio calls he acknowledged the two aircraft in front of me.

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.

C172 pilot reported a near midair collision on final at a non-towered airport; resulting in a go around.