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Beechcraft bonanza pilot reported observing a traffic conflict on foreflight. When visual contact was made the pilot reported taking evasive action.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1651171 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201906 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | UUU.Airport |
| State Reference | RI |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Beechcraft Single Piston Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Route In Use | VFR Route |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Aircraft 2 | |
| Make Model Name | Cessna Single Piston Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Climb |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 7 Flight Crew Total 322 Flight Crew Type 7 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict Airborne Conflict |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 1000 Vertical 0 |
Narrative:
I fly with an ipad running foreflight and using an external ahars/adsb-in receiver (sentry). My aircraft is not equipped with adsb in/out. While in cruise flight at 4;600 ft MSL on a heading of 180 degrees; my ipad suddenly showed a target less than a mile ahead of me and 500 ft below me. Sometimes a very close target that shows up is a 'ghost' target of my own aircraft which is what I suspected this target was initially. I was looking for traffic out of the windows; and I wanted to turn to avoid the traffic but the target was right on top of my own aircraft on the screen yet below me. I did not know which way to turn so I maintained course until I was able to finally make visual contact with the other aircraft; which was climbing from below and through my altitude at my 2 o'clock position and about 1;000 ft away. Upon visual contact I began an immediate left turn and a few moments later the pilot of the other aircraft saw me and began a right turn and the conflict was resolved. This was the classic high wing aircraft climbing up into a low wing aircraft so both pilots' views were restricted. I think the other aircraft was a parachute jump plane because it appeared their back door was removed. VFR flight following would have helped me in this case by providing traffic advisories and I will be more diligent about using ATC services even when flying VFR.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Beechcraft Bonanza pilot reported observing a traffic conflict on ForeFlight. When visual contact was made the pilot reported taking evasive action.
Narrative: I fly with an iPad running ForeFlight and using an external AHARS/ADSB-In receiver (Sentry). My aircraft is not equipped with ADSB In/Out. While in cruise flight at 4;600 ft MSL on a heading of 180 degrees; my iPad suddenly showed a target less than a mile ahead of me and 500 ft below me. Sometimes a very close target that shows up is a 'ghost' target of my own aircraft which is what I suspected this target was initially. I was looking for traffic out of the windows; and I wanted to turn to avoid the traffic but the target was right on top of my own aircraft on the screen yet below me. I did not know which way to turn so I maintained course until I was able to finally make visual contact with the other aircraft; which was climbing from below and through my altitude at my 2 o'clock position and about 1;000 ft away. Upon visual contact I began an immediate left turn and a few moments later the pilot of the other aircraft saw me and began a right turn and the conflict was resolved. This was the classic high wing aircraft climbing up into a low wing aircraft so both pilots' views were restricted. I think the other aircraft was a parachute jump plane because it appeared their back door was removed. VFR flight following would have helped me in this case by providing traffic advisories and I will be more diligent about using ATC services even when flying VFR.
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.