The pilot of a homebuilt aircraft suffered a near midair collision with a single engine cessna on sh...

Attributes
ACN	1123552
Time
Date	201308
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	CXP.Airport
State Reference	NV
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Cessna Single Piston Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 4 Flight Crew Total 500 Flight Crew Type 423
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 50 Vertical 50

Narrative:

I was returning to the airport from the south listening to CTAF. There were 2 or 3 airplanes in the pattern doing touch and goes. I entered a 45 downwind; left traffic for runway 27.there was one plane just finishing his crosswind and entering downwind behind me; one airplane on final which I could see landing; one airplane in front of me on downwind. I did not see him. There was another plane overhead at 7;000 circling waiting to eventually get in the pattern with an overhead entry.the plane in front of me called left base for runway 27 and I continued downwind after passing abeam the runway end. When I heard the front plane call final I started my base leg. I still did not see him. When I was almost inline with runway 27 I started to turn final and heard the previous plane call short final and at the same time I saw him. I was to his left and below him and within 50 to 100 ft.I moved slightly left; aborted my landing and flew upwind to stay in the pattern. It did not require an extreme maneuver on my part. (The other pilot and I talked about it later on the ground.) I felt that it was getting too chaotic so I departed the pattern and several minutes later reentered left downwind for an uneventful landing.in retrospect I realize I was flying the traffic pattern by rote and that was a mistake. Since I didn't have visual contact I should have aborted the entire approach and reentered.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: The pilot of a homebuilt aircraft suffered a NMAC with a single engine Cessna on short final at an uncontrolled airport. Both pilots were utilizing CTAF but never had visual contact with one another.

Narrative: I was returning to the airport from the south listening to CTAF. There were 2 or 3 airplanes in the pattern doing touch and goes. I entered a 45 downwind; left traffic for Runway 27.There was one plane just finishing his crosswind and entering downwind behind me; one airplane on final which I could see landing; one airplane in front of me on downwind. I did not see him. There was another plane overhead at 7;000 circling waiting to eventually get in the pattern with an overhead entry.The plane in front of me called left base for Runway 27 and I continued downwind after passing abeam the runway end. When I heard the front plane call final I started my base leg. I still did not see him. When I was almost inline with Runway 27 I started to turn final and heard the previous plane call short final and at the same time I saw him. I was to his left and below him and within 50 to 100 FT.I moved slightly left; aborted my landing and flew upwind to stay in the pattern. It did not require an extreme maneuver on my part. (The other pilot and I talked about it later on the ground.) I felt that it was getting too chaotic so I departed the pattern and several minutes later reentered left downwind for an uneventful landing.In retrospect I realize I was flying the traffic pattern by rote and that was a mistake. Since I didn't have visual contact I should have aborted the entire approach and reentered.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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.

The pilot of a homebuilt aircraft suffered a near midair collision with a single engine cessna on short final at an uncontrolled airport. Both pilots were utilizing CTAF but never had visual contact with one another.