An instructor and his student suffered a close encounter with a tandem parachute drop shortly after ...

Attributes
ACN	1221212
Time
Date	201411
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Instructor
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 45 Flight Crew Total 3000 Flight Crew Type 300
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
Miss Distance	Horizontal 30 Vertical 0

Narrative:

While taxiing with a student; I heard the skydiving pilot calling a 2 minutes warning to drop. When ready to take off; I could see some canopies [parachutes] deploying and some established fully deployed at what I considered to be a safe altitude. As the student advanced the throttle; I observed a canopy starting to spin down aggressively. As the student initiated the climb out; this tandem canopy (I clearly saw the 2 people) made an aggressive turn over the runway and dropped right in front of the nose of the airplane close enough to demand a radical maneuver to avoid the imminent collision. I yanked the controls from my student and banked the airplane some 90 degrees to initiate a right turn away from the canopy while pushing the nose down to avoid a stall 60 feet above the ground. After the turn; I had to quickly turn back to the runway because I lost track of all the other canopies. I was able to regain runway centerline and finish the climb out without incident.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An instructor and his student suffered a close encounter with a tandem parachute drop shortly after takeoff.

Narrative: While taxiing with a student; I heard the skydiving pilot calling a 2 minutes warning to drop. When ready to take off; I could see some canopies [parachutes] deploying and some established fully deployed at what I considered to be a safe altitude. As the student advanced the throttle; I observed a canopy starting to spin down aggressively. As the student initiated the climb out; this tandem canopy (I clearly saw the 2 people) made an aggressive turn over the runway and dropped right in front of the nose of the airplane close enough to demand a radical maneuver to avoid the imminent collision. I yanked the controls from my student and banked the airplane some 90 degrees to initiate a right turn away from the canopy while pushing the nose down to avoid a stall 60 feet above the ground. After the turn; I had to quickly turn back to the runway because I lost track of all the other canopies. I was able to regain runway centerline and finish the climb out without incident.

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.