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C172 instructor pilot reported flying with 800 feet of a skydiver who was apparently operating without announcing intentions on CTAF.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1591213 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201811 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 7 Flight Crew Total 520 Flight Crew Type 200 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 800 Vertical 500 |
Narrative:
Was flying with student to perform pre-checkride tasks. Checked weather and had flight following to ZZZ. We did 3 touch and goes on runway xx with winds calm. In the right downwind; I visually cleared the xx final and traffic pattern and simulated an engine failure to see if the student would elect to and successfully land on the crossing runway. We began a slip towards the runway and did a go around at midfield at 10 ft AGL. At that point while scanning for traffic on the go around leg; I saw a skydiver at 11 o clock on a converging course. I immediately made a low altitude maneuver with 20 flaps to avoid and to overfly runway xx putting the skydiver at 6 o'clock to create separation. I attempted to radio the drop zone and unicom to no avail. We checked back on with ATC and they had not spoken to any jump planes; nor did we hear any announcements on CTAF as we would have expected. The jumper had no radio despite radios being required via the chart supplement. Luckily I saw him or this would have been bad.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: C172 instructor pilot reported flying with 800 feet of a skydiver who was apparently operating without announcing intentions on CTAF.
Narrative: Was flying with student to perform pre-checkride tasks. Checked weather and had flight following to ZZZ. We did 3 touch and goes on Runway XX with winds calm. In the right downwind; I visually cleared the XX final and traffic pattern and simulated an engine failure to see if the student would elect to and successfully land on the crossing runway. We began a slip towards the runway and did a go around at midfield at 10 ft AGL. At that point while scanning for traffic on the go around leg; I saw a skydiver at 11 o clock on a converging course. I immediately made a low altitude maneuver with 20 flaps to avoid and to overfly Runway XX putting the skydiver at 6 o'clock to create separation. I attempted to radio the drop zone and UNICOM to no avail. We checked back on with ATC and they had not spoken to any jump planes; nor did we hear any announcements on CTAF as we would have expected. The jumper had no radio despite radios being required via the chart supplement. Luckily I saw him or this would have been bad.
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.