Small Aircraft; High Wing; 1 Eng; Retractable Gear
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 20; Flight Crew Total 340; Flight Crew Type 110
Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Distraction; Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Procedure
IFR flight to LNS under VMC [I was] vectored by Harrisburg approach for right downwind for Runway 26 LNS. [I was] cleared for landing on Runway 26 by LNS Tower. Descending into base leg for landing; and saw other traffic; a high-wing Cessna climbing at same horizontal distance from runway; probably within 300 FT vertical separation. LNS has radar; I was never alerted to this traffic. After traffic passed over me; I heard the other traffic announce to Tower that they had passed me. I feel that Tower should have vectored the other traffic away from the arrival end of the runway; and alerted me to their presence.
An IFR pilot descending through 2;000 FT into LNS had a near miss with a departing aircraft but was never alerted about its presence until he saw it pass within 300 FT.