Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 46; Flight Crew Total 386
Situational Awareness
Conflict NMAC; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
I was conducting an introductory flight. I was monitoring the CTAF when I heard an aircraft say they were departing. I did not reply with my position because I did not think I would be a factor to the airport traffic and to help with frequency congestion. I watched the aircraft lift off the runway and start its climb. After watching it climb I figured it was going to depart north because [that] runway has a standard left pattern. I kept watching [the] aircraft and it looked like it was turning south instead. Being that the aircraft was a high performance turbine aircraft I figured that the safest way to go about collision avoidance was to continue toward the airport and get inside what I thought its turn radius was. Soon after; while I was trying to get the ATIS; I lost sight of the aircraft and decided to continue straight for the airport while I tried to reestablish visual contact. I was trying to maneuver the aircraft in a right bank so that I could establish visual contact with other traffic in the area when my student pointed out that a jet just flew right under us. It looked like it was about 500 feet below us and was on a west-northwest heading. I continued and contacted Approach. After contacting Approach I was given the phone number to TRACON and was told to call them when I land. During the phone call with TRACON I was told the jet had to take evasive action due to TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) RA (Resolution Advisory) and was asked to contact Approach when flying around the Class C satellite airports in the future. I believe the situation could have been avoided if I would have announced my position when the jet announced its takeoff on the CTAF or if I would have contacted Approach further out from the airport.
C172 instructor pilot reported an NMAC with a departing corporate jet; citing poor CTAF communications as a contributing factor.