PA28 instructor; with student flying a GPS approach under simulated partial panel conditions; report...

Attributes
ACN	1215373
Time
Date	201411
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach Direct
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Instructor Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 224 Flight Crew Total 1200 Flight Crew Type 650
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200 Vertical 0

Narrative:

During a practice instrument approach to runway 4R a near midair [collision] occurred between my aircraft and a bonanza on a visual approach to the parallel runway 4L. My student was flying the GPS 4R approach under simulated partial panel conditions. As we leveled off at MDA I was instructing the student to identify the vdp. The student was not understanding my instruction and as I was explaining this he was drifting off course towards the centerline of runway 4L. At that time I heard another aircraft identify my aircraft to the tower asking tower what I was doing. I identified the traffic at my 9 o'clock position with approximately 200 ft. Separation. I took the controls and immediately corrected our position on centerline after visually acquiring the traffic. The loss of separation was due to insufficient single pilot resource management on my part. I was monitoring the position on centerline with eyes outside the cockpit but did not visually acquire the traffic until it was nearly too late. My attention was focused on the student's lack of understanding of my instruction; whereas the traffic conflict should have been the priority.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PA28 instructor; with student flying a GPS approach under simulated partial panel conditions; reports allowing his student to drift off course into the approach path of the parallel runway; consequently causing a NMAC with a Bonanza. The Bonanza pilot asks the Tower what the PA28 is doing; alerting the instructor to the deviation.

Narrative: During a practice instrument approach to Runway 4R a near midair [collision] occurred between my aircraft and a Bonanza on a visual approach to the parallel runway 4L. My student was flying the GPS 4R approach under simulated partial panel conditions. As we leveled off at MDA I was instructing the student to identify the VDP. The student was not understanding my instruction and as I was explaining this he was drifting off course towards the centerline of runway 4L. At that time I heard another aircraft identify my aircraft to the tower asking tower what I was doing. I identified the traffic at my 9 o'clock position with approximately 200 ft. separation. I took the controls and immediately corrected our position on centerline after visually acquiring the traffic. The loss of separation was due to insufficient single pilot resource management on my part. I was monitoring the position on centerline with eyes outside the cockpit but did not visually acquire the traffic until it was nearly too late. My attention was focused on the student's lack of understanding of my instruction; whereas the traffic conflict should have been the priority.

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.