Bonanza pilot reported executing evasive maneuvers to avoid another aircraft while on IFR flight pla...

Attributes
ACN	1639299
Time
Date	201904
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.ARTCC
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	IMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Bonanza 36
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 40 Flight Crew Total 350 Flight Crew Type 220
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 500 Vertical 500

Narrative:

I was on a flight to ZZZ. I filed an IFR plan for a direct flight at 9;000 feet. It was a smooth flight with a light tailwind. It was gentleman's IFR; a few minutes in the clouds followed by a few minutes in the clear. Getting closer; I was assigned a descent to 7;000 [feet] and then a few minutes later down to 5;000 [feet]. At 5;000 [feet]; it was mostly IMC. In an instant; my lynx transponder and ipad issued a traffic warning at my 12 o'clock. Same altitude. I cross checked with my G500 and made an attempt to zoom in to see how close the traffic actually was; a few pushes of the button and I realized I was already zoomed in and the traffic was indicating the same location. I shoved the nose down and descended. I'm now out of the clouds descending and nearing 4;000 [feet]. ATC issued an urgent traffic alert with traffic at my 12 [o'clock] and permission to deviate. I told ATC I was deviating and looking for traffic. I located the traffic and notified ATC that I had the traffic in sight and I would be climbing back to 5;000 feet once clear of it. The traffic looked to be doing s-turns.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Bonanza pilot reported executing evasive maneuvers to avoid another aircraft while on IFR flight plan in IMC.

Narrative: I was on a flight to ZZZ. I filed an IFR plan for a direct flight at 9;000 feet. It was a smooth flight with a light tailwind. It was gentleman's IFR; a few minutes in the clouds followed by a few minutes in the clear. Getting closer; I was assigned a descent to 7;000 [feet] and then a few minutes later down to 5;000 [feet]. At 5;000 [feet]; it was mostly IMC. In an instant; my Lynx Transponder and IPAD issued a traffic warning at my 12 o'clock. same altitude. I cross checked with my G500 and made an attempt to zoom in to see how close the traffic actually was; a few pushes of the button and I realized I was already zoomed in and the traffic was indicating the same location. I shoved the nose down and descended. I'm now out of the clouds descending and nearing 4;000 [feet]. ATC issued an urgent traffic alert with traffic at my 12 [o'clock] and permission to deviate. I told ATC I was deviating and looking for traffic. I located the traffic and notified ATC that I had the traffic in sight and I would be climbing back to 5;000 feet once clear of it. The traffic looked to be doing s-turns.

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.