Small Aircraft; Low Wing; 1 Eng; Fixed Gear
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Total 1200
Communication Breakdown; Distraction; Workload; Time Pressure
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict NMAC; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Procedure; Environment - Non Weather Related
This was a training flight for an instrument flight. We were reviewing DME holds from the FFU VOR to the east. Altitude was 7;500 FT MSL. Also we were on Salt Lake Approach receiving traffic advisories. We initially got a call out for the other traffic; ATC advised us of the traffic south of our position we were a heading of roughly 270. The other traffic was also on radar with Salt Lake Approach talking. The next call from ATC; he recommended a turn to the south to avoid the traffic. I continued to look for the traffic and turned south bound. The next call from ATC was to turn to the South West to avoid the traffic. Once we reached a heading of roughly 220 a traffic alert from my TWAS system inside the aircraft came up for the first time for this aircraft; the target was directly on my position and indicating 0 feet of difference. At that same moment I spotted the aircraft to my left side same altitude less than 100 feet horizontally opposite direction. By the time I had seen the traffic their wing was slightly ahead mine; because of that there was no time to react and turn to the right. The other aircraft had seen me at the last moment and started a hard turn to there right to avoid. The other traffic advised ATC that they saw me and that we were very close. In my opinion if the other aircraft did not see me at the last moment there would have been a collision.
Two aircraft near FFU had a near miss at 7;500 FT after Salt Lake Approach Control pointed out their mutual traffic and issued suggest headings but still neither aircraft saw the other until the last second.