An instructor and his student experienced an near midair collision with a helicopter that landed on ...

Narrative:

When approaching to land we heard a helicopter on frequency making position reports. We were in left traffic and sequenced ourselves to follow the helicopter; which was in right traffic to the parallel taxiway to the same runway.I heard the helicopter pilot announce their intentions to 'land' on the parallel taxiway. I visually saw helicopter touch down as we were on about a 1 mile final. At that point my primary student started destabilizing our approach and I spent the next several moments coaching him on pitch and power technique. As we were over the numbers our situation became unstable enough that I commanded a go-around and my student subsequently added power and began to climb out.as we were lifting off; I looked to the right and saw the helicopter lift and hover in front and to the right of us on the parallel taxiway. I took over control of the plane from my student and turned to the left to increase spacing with the helicopter; because at this point the pilot had yet to announce their intentions. After we had passed the helicopter and were on the upwind well clear of the runway; I heard the helicopter pilot announce that they were 'taking off' from the parallel taxiway.this near miss could have been prevented by me initiating a go-around sooner when I wasn't sure of the helicopter's intentions. I should have also queried the other pilot over CTAF as to what their next move was going to be. I was also distracted by coaching my student through basic approach technique; which slowed my reaction time. The other pilot also should have been more clear that they were going to do a touch and go; as opposed to a full stop landing on the taxiway.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Instructor and his student experienced an NMAC with a helicopter that landed on a taxiway adjacent to their intended runway. When the student's approach destabilized they initiated a go-around as the helicopter took off; again creating the conflict.

Narrative: When approaching to land we heard a helicopter on frequency making position reports. We were in left traffic and sequenced ourselves to follow the helicopter; which was in right traffic to the parallel taxiway to the same runway.I heard the helicopter pilot announce their intentions to 'land' on the parallel taxiway. I visually saw helicopter touch down as we were on about a 1 mile final. At that point my primary student started destabilizing our approach and I spent the next several moments coaching him on pitch and power technique. As we were over the numbers our situation became unstable enough that I commanded a go-around and my student subsequently added power and began to climb out.As we were lifting off; I looked to the right and saw the helicopter lift and hover in front and to the right of us on the parallel taxiway. I took over control of the plane from my student and turned to the left to increase spacing with the helicopter; because at this point the pilot had yet to announce their intentions. After we had passed the helicopter and were on the upwind well clear of the runway; I heard the helicopter pilot announce that they were 'taking off' from the parallel taxiway.This near miss could have been prevented by me initiating a go-around sooner when I wasn't sure of the helicopter's intentions. I should have also queried the other pilot over CTAF as to what their next move was going to be. I was also distracted by coaching my student through basic approach technique; which slowed my reaction time. The other pilot also should have been more clear that they were going to do a touch and go; as opposed to a full stop landing on the taxiway.

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	957764
Time
Date	201107
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	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Helicopter
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Person 1
Function	Instructor
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150 Flight Crew Total 2000 Flight Crew Type 1000
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Miss Distance	Horizontal 250 Vertical 0

An instructor and his student experienced an near midair collision with a helicopter that landed on a taxiway adjacent to their intended runway. When the student's approach destabilized they initiated a go-around as the helicopter took off; again creating the conflict.