DA40 Diamond Star
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 183.4; Flight Crew Total 413.8; Flight Crew Type 378.1
Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness
Conflict NMAC
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Airspace Structure
Me and my student were doing ground reference maneuvers near the town of Name and a rotorcraft was inbound for ZZZ. We made several calls about where we were in relation to the airport and even other aircraft could here us making the calls. The helicopter cut through our approach path and I took the controls from my student and made an abrupt decision to introduce power and climb away from the maneuver because he was descending into us. The rotorcraft then went and cut someone off on final for Runway X at ZZZ. What I feel can be done about this is the pilot needs to be talked too about visual scanning if he would've been scanning for traffic while flying and listening to radio calls this report wouldn't be typed to begin with.
DA-40 Flight Instructor reported NMAC with helicopter descending in conflict resulted in taking evasive action.