C172 instructor pilot reported flying with 800 feet of a skydiver who was apparently operating witho...

Attributes
ACN	1591213
Time
Date	201811
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	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Instructor Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 7 Flight Crew Total 520 Flight Crew Type 200
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
Miss Distance	Horizontal 800 Vertical 500

Narrative:

Was flying with student to perform pre-checkride tasks. Checked weather and had flight following to ZZZ. We did 3 touch and goes on runway xx with winds calm. In the right downwind; I visually cleared the xx final and traffic pattern and simulated an engine failure to see if the student would elect to and successfully land on the crossing runway. We began a slip towards the runway and did a go around at midfield at 10 ft AGL. At that point while scanning for traffic on the go around leg; I saw a skydiver at 11 o clock on a converging course. I immediately made a low altitude maneuver with 20 flaps to avoid and to overfly runway xx putting the skydiver at 6 o'clock to create separation. I attempted to radio the drop zone and unicom to no avail. We checked back on with ATC and they had not spoken to any jump planes; nor did we hear any announcements on CTAF as we would have expected. The jumper had no radio despite radios being required via the chart supplement. Luckily I saw him or this would have been bad.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 instructor pilot reported flying with 800 feet of a skydiver who was apparently operating without announcing intentions on CTAF.

Narrative: Was flying with student to perform pre-checkride tasks. Checked weather and had flight following to ZZZ. We did 3 touch and goes on Runway XX with winds calm. In the right downwind; I visually cleared the XX final and traffic pattern and simulated an engine failure to see if the student would elect to and successfully land on the crossing runway. We began a slip towards the runway and did a go around at midfield at 10 ft AGL. At that point while scanning for traffic on the go around leg; I saw a skydiver at 11 o clock on a converging course. I immediately made a low altitude maneuver with 20 flaps to avoid and to overfly Runway XX putting the skydiver at 6 o'clock to create separation. I attempted to radio the drop zone and UNICOM to no avail. We checked back on with ATC and they had not spoken to any jump planes; nor did we hear any announcements on CTAF as we would have expected. The jumper had no radio despite radios being required via the chart supplement. Luckily I saw him or this would have been bad.

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