General aviation pilot providing instruction in locally accepted practice area near roa reported con...

Narrative:

In an established roa practice area with a primary private pilot student instructing him in flight solely by reference to instruments and him 'under the hood'; we were squawking a discreet code. ATC called traffic at 1 o'clock and 3 miles same altitude; opposite direction. We observed the traffic at our 3 o'clock and about 2 miles and reported same to ATC. Traffic was then observed making a steep right hand turn; reversing direction. ATC then called traffic at my 6 o'clock and 1 mi. I immediately initiated a 90 left turn and moved to the other side of the practice area. A minute or so later; ATC called with an 'emergency traffic alert' at my 12 o'clock and 1 mi. I again initiated a 90 degree turn and observed the traffic again in a steep turn to my 6 o'clock position. I had already had the student remove his 'foggles' to help look for traffic. It was obvious to both of us that the traffic (same one) was deliberately 'dog-fighting' with us. I contacted roa approach and advised that I wished to immediately return to roa for landing and that it appeared that the traffic was 'dog-fighting' us. Roa attempted to reach the other aircraft with no result. (We were outside of roa class C; but in their airspace). The traffic (which was faster than our aircraft) followed us to the boundary of class C and broke off. We landed without incident. I don't know of anything I could have done differently; but; obviously; my student was quite rattled by the incident. I did get a good view of the aircraft's paint scheme and but didn't recognize it. I instruct 5-6 days a week; and this was my second 'near-miss' in two days; but this was my first ever-deliberate one!

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: General aviation pilot providing instruction in locally accepted practice area near ROA reported conflict with another aircraft that was allegedly dog-fighting with the reporter.

Narrative: In an established ROA practice area with a primary private pilot student instructing him in flight solely by reference to instruments and him 'under the hood'; we were squawking a discreet code. ATC called traffic at 1 o'clock and 3 miles same altitude; opposite direction. We observed the traffic at our 3 o'clock and about 2 miles and reported same to ATC. Traffic was then observed making a steep right hand turn; reversing direction. ATC then called traffic at my 6 o'clock and 1 mi. I immediately initiated a 90 left turn and moved to the other side of the practice area. A minute or so later; ATC called with an 'Emergency Traffic Alert' at my 12 o'clock and 1 mi. I again initiated a 90 degree turn and observed the traffic again in a steep turn to my 6 o'clock position. I had already had the student remove his 'foggles' to help look for traffic. It was obvious to both of us that the traffic (same one) was deliberately 'dog-fighting' with us. I contacted ROA Approach and advised that I wished to immediately return to ROA for landing and that it appeared that the traffic was 'dog-fighting' us. ROA attempted to reach the other aircraft with no result. (We were outside of ROA Class C; but in their airspace). The traffic (which was faster than our aircraft) followed us to the boundary of Class C and broke off. We landed without incident. I don't know of anything I could have done differently; but; obviously; my student was quite rattled by the incident. I did get a good view of the aircraft's paint scheme and but didn't recognize it. I instruct 5-6 days a week; and this was my second 'near-miss' in two days; but this was my first ever-deliberate one!

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.

Attributes
ACN	841302
Time
Date	200906
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ROA.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Other prac area
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 125 Flight Crew Total 6065 Flight Crew Type 400
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict
Miss Distance	Horizontal 5000

General aviation pilot providing instruction in locally accepted practice area near roa reported conflict with another aircraft that was allegedly dog-fighting with the reporter.