Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Distraction; Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness; Time Pressure
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict NMAC; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
I was enroute to MALET with my student to hold; we were climbing out of TIX. We were leveling out at 3;000 feet cleared direct to MALET and hold as published; EFC (Expect Further Clearance). Upon reaching 3;000 feet. ATC alerted us to an aircraft at our 6 O'clock position 1;000 feet above us northbound directly behind us on the V3 airway. At this point I began to focus on MALET and helping my student set up the hold in the G1000 and configure the airplane for the hold; this momentarily took my attention away from the traffic behind us and I felt it was safe because they were 1;000 feet above us so it shouldn't have been an issue. Also during this time after ATC had cleared us to MALET to hold they got extremely saturated and were very busy. I then noticed the aircraft behind us had dropped almost down to our altitude and show +100 feet above us on the MFD (Multifunctional Display) at this point I took control and began turning to right to north easterly heading.The moment I began banking to the right the Aircraft passed off our left wing within 200 feet of us and somewhere between 50 to 100 feet below us. This startled both the student and myself. I then alerted ATC to just how close we came to a mid-air collision. After that we returned to our assigned altitude and proceeded direct to MALET for the hold. I would suggest keeping a closer eye on traffic and trying to become more proactive monitoring traffic behind us. Also I think the high workload/task saturation was a contributing factor to this being that it was my first time holding at MALET and I was trying to make sure we got to where we needed to be and where ATC expected us.
Flight Instructor reported that due to busy workload and distraction evasive action was taken to avoid a mid air collision.