<< >> NASA ASRS Report 852580, July 2009

PA25 pilot using CTAF procedures and landing south reports coming nose to nose with a MU2 landing north. PA25 pilot executed a go-around while the MU2 pilot landed.

Attributes
ACN	852580
Time
Date	200907
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	PA-25 Pawnee
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	MU-2 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Phase	Landing
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 60 Flight Crew Total 1700 Flight Crew Type 800
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Miss Distance	Horizontal 4000

Narrative:

The PA-25 had just completed a tow and was circling in for a landing on runway 34 and was making radio calls. The PA-25 was on final about 50 ft off the deck when an mu-2 landed runway 16 with no radio calls and without flying a pattern. The calm wind runway is runway 34. The PA-25 did take evasive action to avoid coming nose to nose with the mu-2. After talking with the mu-2 pilot he advised that he was not aware of the frequency change that took place a year ago even though he flies in weekly. Neither his charts; nor AFD were current.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PA25 pilot using CTAF procedures and landing south reports coming nose to nose with a MU2 landing north. PA25 pilot executed a go-around while the MU2 pilot landed.

Narrative: The PA-25 had just completed a tow and was circling in for a landing on Runway 34 and was making radio calls. The PA-25 was on final about 50 FT off the deck when an MU-2 landed Runway 16 with no radio calls and without flying a pattern. The calm wind runway is Runway 34. The PA-25 did take evasive action to avoid coming nose to nose with the MU-2. After talking with the MU-2 pilot he advised that he was not aware of the frequency change that took place a year ago even though he flies in weekly. Neither his charts; nor AFD were current.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.