Beechcraft Single Piston Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Private; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 7; Flight Crew Total 322; Flight Crew Type 7
Distraction; Situational Awareness
Conflict Airborne Conflict
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
I fly with an iPad running ForeFlight and using an external AHARS/ADSB-In receiver (Sentry). My aircraft is not equipped with ADSB In/Out. While in cruise flight at 4;600 ft MSL on a heading of 180 degrees; my iPad suddenly showed a target less than a mile ahead of me and 500 ft below me. Sometimes a very close target that shows up is a 'ghost' target of my own aircraft which is what I suspected this target was initially. I was looking for traffic out of the windows; and I wanted to turn to avoid the traffic but the target was right on top of my own aircraft on the screen yet below me. I did not know which way to turn so I maintained course until I was able to finally make visual contact with the other aircraft; which was climbing from below and through my altitude at my 2 o'clock position and about 1;000 ft away. Upon visual contact I began an immediate left turn and a few moments later the pilot of the other aircraft saw me and began a right turn and the conflict was resolved. This was the classic high wing aircraft climbing up into a low wing aircraft so both pilots' views were restricted. I think the other aircraft was a parachute jump plane because it appeared their back door was removed. VFR flight following would have helped me in this case by providing traffic advisories and I will be more diligent about using ATC services even when flying VFR.
Beechcraft Bonanza pilot reported observing a traffic conflict on ForeFlight. When visual contact was made the pilot reported taking evasive action.