C152 pilot reported braking abruptly to avoid a collision on a taxiway at fit airport.

Attributes
ACN	1658931
Time
Date	201906
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	FIT.Airport
State Reference	MA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cessna 152
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 1150
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Critical
Miss Distance	Horizontal 10

Narrative:

As I was taxiing out to runway 20 at fit I was coming up to the second to last taxiway on the right; where I observed [another light aircraft] coming towards the taxiway from the hangar. I observed the pilot in [that aircraft] taxiing head down at a normal taxi speed. He was not able to see me and I had to hard brake to a point where the squeaking from my brakes was able to startle him enough where he raised his head. He stopped on the intersection at about my 2 o'clock position; and he was looking at me at which point he made a radio call apologizing that he 'did not see me there' I asked him to please keep his head up when taxiing; because if it was anyone else taxiing around not looking up; there would have been a taxiway collision where my prop would have been eating through his wing.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C152 pilot reported braking abruptly to avoid a collision on a taxiway at FIT airport.

Narrative: As I was taxiing out to Runway 20 at FIT I was coming up to the second to last taxiway on the right; where I observed [another light aircraft] coming towards the taxiway from the hangar. I observed the pilot in [that aircraft] taxiing head down at a normal taxi speed. He was not able to see me and I had to hard brake to a point where the squeaking from my brakes was able to startle him enough where he raised his head. He stopped on the intersection at about my 2 o'clock position; and he was looking at me at which point he made a radio call apologizing that he 'did not see me there' I asked him to please keep his head up when taxiing; because if it was anyone else taxiing around not looking up; there would have been a taxiway collision where my prop would have been eating through his wing.

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