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Helicopter pilot reported that while hovering over the runway at a non towered airport; another aircraft started a takeoff roll down the same runway.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1518881 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201802 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Helicopter |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Aircraft 2 | |
| Make Model Name | PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior |
| Flight Phase | Climb |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 1400 Flight Crew Type 100 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Conflict NMAC Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Excursion Runway |
| Miss Distance | Horizontal 75 Vertical 0 |
Narrative:
A student and I had just flown in to ZZZ on a cross country flight. We landed and observed no other traffic in the pattern or on the ground; so we sat on the runway to allow time for my student to readjust his kneeboard for the next leg of the flight. When the student was ready (no more than 30sec after touchdown) he [placed] the helicopter into a hover. As my student was checking his gauges for takeoff we heard over CTAF '...taking the runway one six for takeoff; departure to the north.' I then asked my student to perform a right pedal turn to look behind us down the runway to make sure there was not an aircraft 'barreling down on us'. My student saw an aircraft rolling toward us and said 'uuuh; he is'. I then turned my head; saw the aircraft approaching us; took the controls and rapidly moved us into the grass area to the right of [the] runway. I made a radio call saying that I was on the active runway; no response from the airplane. As the aircraft passed us; I called out his tail number 'aircraft Y' to which someone replied 'you're on the grass!' the pilot made no other radio calls. Estimated distance of closest intercept was 75 ft.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Helicopter pilot reported that while hovering over the runway at a non towered airport; another aircraft started a takeoff roll down the same runway.
Narrative: A student and I had just flown in to ZZZ on a cross country flight. We landed and observed no other traffic in the pattern or on the ground; so we sat on the runway to allow time for my student to readjust his kneeboard for the next leg of the flight. When the student was ready (no more than 30sec after touchdown) he [placed] the helicopter into a hover. As my student was checking his gauges for takeoff we heard over CTAF '...taking the runway one six for takeoff; departure to the north.' I then asked my student to perform a right pedal turn to look behind us down the runway to make sure there was not an aircraft 'barreling down on us'. My student saw an aircraft rolling toward us and said 'uuuh; he is'. I then turned my head; saw the aircraft approaching us; took the controls and rapidly moved us into the grass area to the right of [the] runway. I made a radio call saying that I was on the active runway; no response from the airplane. As the aircraft passed us; I called out his tail number 'Aircraft Y' To which someone replied 'You're on the grass!' The pilot made no other radio calls. Estimated distance of closest intercept was 75 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.