Narrative:

I was flying in a training flight with my instructor. We were returning from pattern practice; and had been cleared by the tower official to do a touch-and-go. On our final for the approach; another aircraft called in (SR20) and requested clearance for take-off. He was told to hold short of the runway and he did. Our aircraft (C172) had been cleared for takeoff; by tower; from a touch-and-go and proceeded to depart the runway to stay in the pattern and come in for a final landing. As we were climbing; the SR20 departed the runway approximately 10 seconds after we had started our initial climb. We turn crosswind and then downwind and maintained pattern altitude. We had just finished the turn into downwind when we see to our left the SR20 wing high and banking for his crosswind to downwind turn all while at the same altitude as our aircraft. He was no more than 150 feet away from our aircraft. My instructor immediately notified the tower we were departing the pattern and took preventative action by first taking over control of the aircraft and then making a right 360 degree turn; as directed by the tower official. I stayed clear of all controls and let him maintain contact with the tower while manning the aircraft. There was no sign of awareness of our aircraft indicated by the SR20. The pilot did not make his presence known on the radio frequency. Our aircraft is red and the sky was clear so we were visible in today's conditions. It appears he was not paying attention and decided on his own to make his crosswind to downwind turn far too soon. We re-entered the pattern behind the other aircraft (per ATC instruction) and proceeded to follow additional tower instructions in regards to landing for a full stop and sequence instructions.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Two aircraft; occupied by student pilots and instructors; experienced a near-mid-air-collision when the faster trailing aircraft pilots did not observe the slower leading aircraft; and turned crosswind towards them.

Narrative: I was flying in a training flight with my instructor. We were returning from pattern practice; and had been cleared by the tower official to do a touch-and-go. On our final for the approach; another aircraft called in (SR20) and requested clearance for take-off. He was told to hold short of the runway and he did. Our aircraft (C172) had been cleared for takeoff; by tower; from a touch-and-go and proceeded to depart the runway to stay in the pattern and come in for a final landing. As we were climbing; the SR20 departed the runway approximately 10 seconds after we had started our initial climb. We turn crosswind and then downwind and maintained pattern altitude. We had just finished the turn into downwind when we see to our left the SR20 wing high and banking for his crosswind to downwind turn all while at the same altitude as our aircraft. He was no more than 150 feet away from our aircraft. My instructor immediately notified the tower we were departing the pattern and took preventative action by first taking over control of the aircraft and then making a right 360 degree turn; as directed by the tower official. I stayed clear of all controls and let him maintain contact with the tower while manning the aircraft. There was no sign of awareness of our aircraft indicated by the SR20. The pilot did not make his presence known on the radio frequency. Our aircraft is red and the sky was clear so we were visible in today's conditions. It appears he was not paying attention and decided on his own to make his crosswind to downwind turn far too soon. We re-entered the pattern behind the other aircraft (per ATC instruction) and proceeded to follow additional tower instructions in regards to landing for a full stop and sequence instructions.

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.