A C172 pilot reported a near collision with a sky diver while landing at asd. No reports of jumpers ...

Narrative:

I called eleven miles out for any traffic 122.8 in the pattern after a hand off from new orleans approach control after canceling IFR approach into asd and going visual when runway sighted. Radar flight following was maintained until requested to cancel. At seven miles I called again for traffic in asd traffic area and still got no response. I called for straight in approach to runway 18 at five miles and requested any traffic to reply. There was no reply. I called final at two miles and still no traffic reply. I called final at one half mile for full stop landing and still no reply from traffic in asd area other than another plane responding five miles out for entry into the pattern. When in the flare at touch down (about 500 from end of runway) my wife pointed to the 1 o'clock position high a jumper about 100' estimate. I immediately got on the brakes and brought the plane to a complete stop to avoid passing under the jumper. At no time from eleven miles out after hand over from new orleans approach did I ever hear any jump call from any aircraft. I had dual communication's both on 122.8 after canceling radar coverage and never heard any response to my call for traffic in the area. I did hear other aircraft in local areas landing but nothing from slidell. I am aware there are parachutes at asd but there were no NOTAM's to indicate activity today and no apparent response to radio calls for activity in the traffic area. I saw no jump master on the ground and only one chute in the air. My aircraft is cessna 172 high wing and I could not see if there were still jumpers in the air after I came to a full stop on the runway. After the jumper landed and I saw no further jumpers I taxied into the parking area. I recommend NOTAM;s be updated to reflect actual time windows of jumpers and a safety jumpmaster on the ground with radio monitoring CTAF that can respond when jumpers are getting ready to jump and in the air. I would gladly have circled to allow the jumpers to have clear airspace had I know they were jumping.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A C172 pilot reported a near collision with a sky diver while landing at ASD. No reports of jumpers away were received from Approach Control or on Unicom frequency.

Narrative: I called eleven miles out for any traffic 122.8 in the pattern after a hand off from New Orleans approach control after canceling IFR approach into ASD and going visual when runway sighted. Radar flight following was maintained until requested to cancel. At seven miles I called again for traffic in ASD traffic area and still got no response. I called for straight in approach to Runway 18 at five miles and requested any traffic to reply. There was no reply. I called final at two miles and still no traffic reply. I called final at one half mile for full stop landing and still no reply from traffic in ASD area other than another plane responding five miles out for entry into the pattern. When in the flare at touch down (about 500 from end of runway) my wife pointed to the 1 o'clock position high a jumper about 100' estimate. I immediately got on the brakes and brought the plane to a complete stop to avoid passing under the jumper. At no time from eleven miles out after hand over from New Orleans approach did I ever hear any jump call from any aircraft. I had dual COM's both on 122.8 after canceling radar coverage and never heard any response to my call for traffic in the area. I did hear other aircraft in local areas landing but nothing from Slidell. I am aware there are parachutes at ASD but there were no NOTAM's to indicate activity today AND no apparent response to radio calls for activity in the traffic area. I saw no jump master on the ground and only one chute in the air. My aircraft is Cessna 172 high wing and I could not see if there were still jumpers in the air after I came to a full stop on the runway. After the jumper landed and I saw no further jumpers I taxied into the parking area. I recommend NOTAM;s be updated to reflect actual time windows of jumpers and a safety jumpmaster on the ground with radio monitoring CTAF that can respond when jumpers are getting ready to jump and in the air. I would gladly have circled to allow the jumpers to have clear airspace had I know they were jumping.

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	976087
Time
Date	201110
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ASD.Airport
State Reference	LA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 10.6 Flight Crew Total 1939 Flight Crew Type 75
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Ground Event / Encounter Person / Animal / Bird
Miss Distance	Horizontal 500 Vertical 100

A C172 pilot reported a near collision with a sky diver while landing at asd. No reports of jumpers away were received from approach control or on unicom frequency.