F33A student pilot sitting in the cabin; with another student and the instructor at the controls; re...

Attributes
ACN	1239393
Time
Date	201502
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	GYR.Airport
State Reference	AZ
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Bonanza 33
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Other / Unknown
Qualification	Flight Crew Student
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Ground Event / Encounter Object Inflight Event / Encounter Object
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200 Vertical 50

Narrative:

When flying the arrival a large drone was observed left of the plane. We were flying perpendicular towards the runway with a distance of 1.5 miles towards the runway; just before entering the left hand downwind for runway 03. The observer saw a red and black; at that time unidentified; object very close and 9 o'clock of the plane and notified the student pilot and instructor pilot. The student pilot and I agreed that it was a drone right at traffic pattern altitude. ATC was not informed and approach was continued. Later on the ground we agreed the horizontal distance was around 200 ft.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: F33A student pilot sitting in the cabin; with another student and the instructor at the controls; reports sighting a drone while entering the traffic pattern at GYR.

Narrative: When flying the arrival a large drone was observed left of the plane. We were flying perpendicular towards the Runway with a distance of 1.5 miles towards the Runway; just before entering the left hand downwind for Runway 03. The observer saw a red and black; at that time unidentified; object very close and 9 o'clock of the plane and notified the Student Pilot and Instructor Pilot. The Student Pilot and I agreed that it was a drone right at traffic pattern altitude. ATC was not informed and approach was continued. Later on the ground we agreed the horizontal distance was around 200 ft.

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.

F33A student pilot sitting in the cabin; with another student and the instructor at the controls; reports sighting a drone while entering the traffic pattern at gyr.