Narrative:

I was non-flying pilot (passenger) in right front seat; our aircraft inbound to avq with intentions of flying direct to town of marana (VFR landmark) and making left base entry to runway 12 (active in-use and calm wind runway); listened to AWOS; made several blind calls inbound starting at 20 miles out giving position; altitude and intentions. While we were about 20 miles out we heard a radio call from aircraft on ground taking runway 12 and holding in position; heard 2nd plane radioing in he was on 'short final' for 12 (sounded irritated); plane on ground said 'I'll be out of your way'. Pilot of our plane and I discussed poor technique of plane taking runway in front of landing traffic. We did not hear another radio call. At 10 miles out we turned on landing light and continued. At approximately 8-9 miles out I saw aircraft approaching head-on below and slightly right of us; climbing; clearly a significant conflict; I immediately took control of yoke pulling us violently straight up as he passed under our right wing less than 100 ft below (estimated as less than 3 wing spans). Seconds later we heard a radio call 'hey - that was pretty close' - we responded 'it certainly was'. Moments later we heard pilot of other aircraft say something about 'you were steady on my windscreen' or 'you were blocked by [something] on my windscreen'. Our aircraft then abandoned our intended approach in favor of a 45 degree entry to runway 12 left traffic reporting over 'the cement plant'. Departing and climbing aircraft was climbing out of visual desert ground clutter; no landing or recognition lights on so was difficult for us to see. We should have asked his direction of flight after he departed.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A light aircraft pilot reported an NMAC with another small aircraft in the vicinity of AVQ.

Narrative: I was non-flying pilot (passenger) in right front seat; our aircraft inbound to AVQ with intentions of flying direct to town of Marana (VFR landmark) and making left base entry to Runway 12 (active in-use and calm wind runway); listened to AWOS; made several blind calls inbound starting at 20 miles out giving position; altitude and intentions. While we were about 20 miles out we heard a radio call from aircraft on ground taking Runway 12 and holding in position; heard 2nd plane radioing in he was on 'short final' for 12 (sounded irritated); plane on ground said 'I'll be out of your way'. Pilot of our plane and I discussed poor technique of plane taking runway in front of landing traffic. We did not hear another radio call. At 10 miles out we turned on landing light and continued. At approximately 8-9 miles out I saw aircraft approaching head-on below and slightly right of us; climbing; clearly a significant conflict; I immediately took control of yoke pulling us violently straight up as he passed under our right wing less than 100 FT below (estimated as less than 3 wing spans). Seconds later we heard a radio call 'Hey - that was pretty close' - we responded 'it certainly was'. Moments later we heard pilot of other aircraft say something about 'you were steady on my windscreen' or 'you were blocked by [something] on my windscreen'. Our aircraft then abandoned our intended approach in favor of a 45 degree entry to Runway 12 left traffic reporting over 'the cement plant'. Departing and climbing aircraft was climbing out of visual desert ground clutter; no landing or recognition lights on so was difficult for us to see. We should have asked his direction of flight after he departed.

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.