Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100; Flight Crew Total 460; Flight Crew Type 350
Situational Awareness; Distraction; Training / Qualification
Conflict NMAC
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Aircraft; Company Policy; Human Factors
I was conducting flight training with my student. We were working on lost procedures so I turned off the map on the MFD (Multi-Function Flight Display) for training purpose. We were training and we were in a designated practice area. We had our own frequency to make radio calls for traffic advisory. As we were doing the lost procedures I made the initial radio call and knew there was traffic south of us and another one east of us. We were circling since it is part of the lost procedures. After a while; me and my student looked up and there was an aircraft approaching us almost head on. We were probably a good 500 feet or maybe less away and at the same altitude. So I took the controls and made a sharp right turn to avoid traffic as well as the traffic ahead of us. What caused this to happen is both of us not looking outside more due to me and the student being too focused inside the cockpit. The corrective action is to look outside more and do more radio calls for traffic advisories. Also; I would've left the map on the MFD.
Flight School instructor reported a NMAC while he was providing instruction in a practice area.