Narrative:

While practicing instrument approaches in visual conditions; established on the 069 radial inbound and descending to the augusta airport; visual contact was made with a high-wing plane at a range of approximately 300 feet horizontally and 100 feet vertically. That aircraft suddenly passed beneath us from south to north at a range of less than 100 feet vertically and horizontally; visual contact was lost when the high-wing plane passed under our low-wing aircraft requiring immediate evasive actions by the instructor to halt the decent and climb to avoid a mid-air collision with the plane passing beneath us. When we informed the aircraft that they has passed extremely close beneath us on the local CTAF frequency; the response on the radio was: 'well I didn't see you and you weren't on my screen'; alluding to the fact that our aircraft did not appear on his ads-B in equipped equipment as this training aircraft is not equipped with ads-B. The level of complacency displayed with that single comment leads to the idea that pilots may have a significant misunderstanding of how ads-B is required and works. Furthermore; the presence of such a system does not preclude the 'see and avoid' rules.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: BE23 instructor reported a NMAC on approach.

Narrative: While practicing instrument approaches in visual conditions; established on the 069 radial inbound and descending to the Augusta airport; visual contact was made with a high-wing plane at a range of approximately 300 feet horizontally and 100 feet vertically. That aircraft suddenly passed beneath us from south to north at a range of less than 100 feet vertically and horizontally; visual contact was lost when the high-wing plane passed under our low-wing aircraft requiring immediate evasive actions by the instructor to halt the decent and climb to avoid a mid-air collision with the plane passing beneath us. When we informed the aircraft that they has passed extremely close beneath us on the local CTAF frequency; the response on the radio was: 'well I didn't see you and you weren't on my screen'; alluding to the fact that our aircraft did not appear on his ADS-B in equipped equipment as this training aircraft is not equipped with ADS-B. The level of complacency displayed with that single comment leads to the idea that pilots may have a significant misunderstanding of how ADS-B is required and works. Furthermore; the presence of such a system does not preclude the 'see and avoid' rules.

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.