A ce-188 conducting ag spray operations near a midwest airport had a near miss after a helicopter pilot approaching the airport did not make CTAF position reports.

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Attributes
ACN	1251701
Time
Date	201504
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	Cessna 188 (Ag Wagon/Ag Truck/Ag Husky)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 137
Flight Phase	Other 137 operations
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Helicopter
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 16500 Flight Crew Type 8000
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Miss Distance	Horizontal 150 Vertical 100

Narrative:

Conducting part 137 operations on south part of airport. Did not see or hear communications from helicopter approaching airport. After helicopter made his initial call to the unicom; the FBO responded that ag operations we being conducted on the south part of airport.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A CE-188 conducting AG spray operations near a Midwest airport had a near miss after a helicopter pilot approaching the airport did not make CTAF position reports.

Narrative: Conducting Part 137 operations on South part of airport. Did not see or hear communications from Helicopter approaching airport. After Helicopter made his initial call to the unicom; the FBO responded that ag operations we being conducted on the South part of airport.

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.