<< >> NASA ASRS Report 911491, September 2010

A glider pilot reported a near miss with a parachutist at 50 ft while on short final to an uncontrolled airport.

Attributes
ACN	911491
Time
Date	201009
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	Sail Plane
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Other
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Glider Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 40 Flight Crew Total 7900 Flight Crew Type 200
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Inflight Event / Encounter Bird / Animal
Miss Distance	Horizontal 20 Vertical 0

Narrative:

I was the pilot of ask-21 (glider). Basically I was about 50 ft AGL; established on final for runway 21 (and had been for half a mile) when I saw a parachute appear in front of me on centerline; level and very near. I jinked left; missed him/her and completed the landing. The parachutist was directly over the runway; on centerline and made no apparent effort to avoid airport runway traffic. This was a near mid-air collision; with all at risk. I estimate miss distance as less than 20 ft probably near 10 ft.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A glider pilot reported a near miss with a parachutist at 50 FT while on short final to an uncontrolled airport.

Narrative: I was the pilot of ASK-21 (glider). Basically I was about 50 FT AGL; established on final for Runway 21 (and had been for half a mile) when I saw a parachute appear in front of me on centerline; level and very near. I jinked left; missed him/her and completed the landing. The parachutist was directly over the runway; on centerline and made no apparent effort to avoid airport runway traffic. This was a near mid-air collision; with all at risk. I estimate miss distance as less than 20 FT probably near 10 FT.

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.