Small Aircraft; High Wing; 1 Eng; Fixed Gear
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120; Flight Crew Total 700; Flight Crew Type 500
Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Situational Awareness
Conflict NMAC; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors; Procedure; Airport
Practicing touch and go's at Bend airport with a student; flying standard left traffic for Runway 16. Skies were clear and visibility was greater than 10SM. Turned about 1 mile final from base. Both base and final radio calls were made. Just as we were passing over the runway numbers about to touchdown; we heard a scream over the radio. After landing and beginning roll for touch and go; helicopter comes over the radio and asks if we saw the helicopter that we just flew under. We said no we had not. Last radio call we heard from a helicopter was 'high left downwind 16; power off 180.' After talking to the instructor in the helicopter; we found out that they missed coming down on top of us by about 10 feet while practicing an auto-rotation. THIS AIRPORT NEEDS A TOWER OR IT IS A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THERE IS A MIDAIR COLLISION!
Apparently a helicopter doing routine flight training had witnessed my and my instructors aircraft fly directly beneath while the helicopter was on short final to Runway 16.Neither myself nor my instructor had a clue that there could have been a helicopter on final approach. We did not hear a radio call announcing a helicopter on final; nor did we see a helicopter along our approach path.BDN has a high volume of flight training activity both helicopter and fixed wing. Though usually the helicopter and airplane traffic communicate intentions very well. This close call happened during a normally scheduled flight block. During that time there were both helicopters and airplanes in the traffic pattern. Helicopters were using the adjoining taxiways; while airplanes were using the runway.
A high wing aircraft and a helicopter had a near miss over Runway 16 at BDN very short final when the fixed wing aircraft flew directly beneath the helicopter as its pilots were practicing an autorotation landing.