SR20 pilot reported an airborne conflict with another aircraft requiring evasive action. The traffic...

Attributes
ACN	1439919
Time
Date	201704
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	BTL.Airport
State Reference	MI
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	SR20
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 24 Flight Crew Total 96 Flight Crew Type 37
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Inflight Event / Encounter VFR In IMC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 3000 Vertical 200

Narrative:

I was under radar surveillance with kalamazoo approach control. I was being vectored for the RNAV 31 approach into btl. I was currently flying with a view limiting device during my approach to simulate IFR conditions while my safety pilot was looking for traffic. We were flying at 2800 ft MSL when we monitored our traffic advisory system and spotted two additional aircraft in the vicinity of our route. One aircraft was 500 ft below us and climbing and to our left. An additional aircraft was 2 miles north of us and also being vectored for the RNAV approach at 2500 MSL. As the aircraft that was 500 ft below us began to close in on our direction of flight and began their climb; I initiated my climb to avoid the traffic at which point we entered the cloud for 2 seconds and then broke out and descended back to our original altitude of 2;500. The traffic below passed below us and then off to our right heading eastbound as we were heading northeast bound now for our vectors. ATC warned us when the aircraft was 200 feet below us and within a 0.5 NM range. At which point I began to climb for traffic avoidance.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: SR20 pilot reported an airborne conflict with another aircraft requiring evasive action. The traffic was detected by an onboard TCAS system and also reported by ATC.

Narrative: I was under radar surveillance with Kalamazoo Approach control. I was being vectored for the RNAV 31 approach into BTL. I was currently flying with a view limiting device during my approach to simulate IFR conditions while my safety pilot was looking for traffic. We were flying at 2800 FT MSL when we monitored our traffic advisory system and spotted two additional aircraft in the vicinity of our route. One aircraft was 500 ft below us and climbing and to our left. An additional aircraft was 2 miles north of us and also being vectored for the RNAV Approach at 2500 MSL. As the aircraft that was 500 ft below us began to close in on our direction of flight and began their climb; I initiated my climb to avoid the traffic at which point we entered the cloud for 2 seconds and then broke out and descended back to our original altitude of 2;500. The traffic below passed below us and then off to our right heading eastbound as we were heading northeast bound now for our vectors. ATC warned us when the aircraft was 200 feet below us and within a 0.5 NM range. At which point I began to climb for traffic avoidance.

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.