C172 instructor pilot reported he failed to maintain proper see and avoid technique when he was dist...

Attributes
ACN	1260908
Time
Date	201505
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	DAB.TRACON
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Instructor Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 400 Flight Crew Type 300
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Miss Distance	Horizontal 1500 Vertical 300

Narrative:

My student and I were on an IFR flight plan to ssi; during climb (approximate 13 nm north of dab) ATC gave us a traffic alert. I read back the traffic alert; but because I was distracted teaching I did not pay attention for the location of the traffic. When I finished what I wanted to say to my student; I started to look for the traffic and just before asking ATC for an update of the position of the traffic; I saw the traffic (a DA42) taking evasive action (steep descent and a turn). The DA42 was very close to our airplane; I estimate that the traffic was 200ft or 300ft below us and around 1;500ft horizontal. I did not took evasive action since the aircraft was in a non collision course when I saw it. I believe that I had an overconfidence with ATC; thinking that they were going to separate us from any traffic. It was a reminder for me that there is other traffic that is flying VFR and are not contacting ATC. Also; that I am responsible of separation of my aircraft with other aircraft during VMC. Next time that I receive a traffic alert; I will interrupt my teaching and search for the traffic.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 instructor pilot reported he failed to maintain proper see and avoid technique when he was distracted by student instruction.

Narrative: My student and I were on an IFR flight plan to SSI; during climb (approximate 13 nm north of DAB) ATC gave us a traffic alert. I read back the traffic alert; but because I was distracted teaching I did not pay attention for the location of the traffic. When I finished what I wanted to say to my student; I started to look for the traffic and just before asking ATC for an update of the position of the traffic; I saw the traffic (a DA42) taking evasive action (steep descent and a turn). The DA42 was very close to our airplane; I estimate that the traffic was 200ft or 300ft below us and around 1;500ft horizontal. I did not took evasive action since the aircraft was in a non collision course when I saw it. I believe that I had an overconfidence with ATC; thinking that they were going to separate us from any traffic. It was a reminder for me that there is other traffic that is flying VFR and are not contacting ATC. Also; that I am responsible of separation of my aircraft with other aircraft during VMC. Next time that I receive a traffic alert; I will interrupt my teaching and search for the traffic.

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.