A DA20 pilot reported that the instructor with him acting as a safety and familiarization pilot enco...

Narrative:

The problem started when we were taxiing back to parking. There was a plane facing us (really far; not involved in any way); and we needed to park behind him. So me and my instructor decided to go around him; which will require us to get closer to the hangars. So we didn't follow the yellow taxi line as the instructor told me there is enough clearance. The instructor was looking for the clearance between the hangars and our plane (from inside the cockpit next to me). We ended up just scratching the light on the wing with the hangar's door no substantial damage just the light on the side of the wing needs to be replaced and also no substantial damage to the hangar. So there was no need to advice the NTSB. My mistake was accepting to get closer to the hangars. What I should have done is told the instructor to wait for the other airplane to pass so we can follow the yellow taxi line. Since it's already hard to taxi at this airport anyway because of the way it's designed and the lack of ground control since it's uncontrolled. The instructor was not providing instruction he was only there as I'm unfamiliar with the airport and as a safety pilot as most of my hours are in a towered airport.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A DA20 Pilot reported that the Instructor with him acting as a safety and familiarization pilot encouraged him to deviate from the yellow taxi line nearer to a hangar and subsequently a wing tip position bulb contacted the hangar.

Narrative: The problem started when we were taxiing back to parking. There was a plane facing us (really far; NOT involved in any way); and we needed to park behind him. So me and my instructor decided to go around him; which will require us to get closer to the hangars. So we didn't follow the yellow taxi line as the Instructor told me there is enough clearance. The Instructor was looking for the clearance between the hangars and our plane (from inside the cockpit next to me). We ended up just scratching the light on the wing with the hangar's door no substantial damage just the light on the side of the wing needs to be replaced and also no substantial damage to the hangar. So there was no need to advice the NTSB. My mistake was accepting to get closer to the hangars. What I should have done is told the Instructor to wait for the other airplane to pass so we can follow the yellow taxi line. Since it's already hard to taxi at this airport anyway because of the way it's designed and the lack of Ground Control since it's uncontrolled. The Instructor was not providing instruction he was only there as I'm unfamiliar with the airport and as a safety pilot as most of my hours are in a towered airport.

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.

Attributes
ACN	893511
Time
Date	201006
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	DA20-C1 Eclipse
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Taxi
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 103.8 Flight Crew Total 133.6 Flight Crew Type 40
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Object Ground Excursion Taxiway

A DA20 pilot reported that the instructor with him acting as a safety and familiarization pilot encouraged him to deviate from the yellow taxi line nearer to a hangar and subsequently a wing tip position bulb contacted the hangar.