Small Aircraft; High Wing; 1 Eng; Fixed Gear
Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 12; Flight Crew Total 770; Flight Crew Type 770
Situational Awareness
Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR
Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
While flying to Block Island State Airport (BID); reporting approximately 12 miles west of the airport at approximately 3;000 ft MSL; I inquired for advisories at Block Island Airport over the CTAF; 123.0 and I was advised that Runway 10 was in use. This made sense as the prevailing winds were reported at 080 degrees and 7 knots. A few aircraft were heading towards the airport and I communicated with at least two of the three known aircraft flying in the vicinity. While on a 3 mile final approach to Runway 10; I announced my position on the CTAF that I had the landing traffic ahead of me in sight and that I was following it in. When I was approximately 2 miles from the runway; I again announced my position and that I had a visual of the plane in front of me touching down. By this point my airplane was on 'short approach' to Runway 10. No other aircraft announced they were on final approach. As I approached 1 mile from the threshold of Runway 10; approximately 500 ft AGL; I noticed another airplane swoop in at my 9 o'clock position (from my left) and overtake my airplane and swoop in lower than me to beat me to the runway. Horrified; I broke off from final approach and called a 'go-around' and climbed out to pattern altitude of 1;107 ft MSL. I commented on the CTAF to the pilot of the other aircraft; who was not immediately identified; that he had performed an unsafe maneuver. The other pilot barked back; 'I was ahead of you!' Clearly; he was not. In fact; the other pilot appears to have broken subsection g of 'Right of Way' Rule 91.113: '(g) Landing. Aircraft; while on final approach to land or while landing; have the right-of-way over other aircraft in flight or operating on the surface; except that they shall not take advantage of this rule to force an aircraft off the runway surface which has already landed and is attempting to make way for an aircraft on final approach. When two or more aircraft are approaching an airport for the purpose of landing; the aircraft at the lower altitude has the right-of-way; but it shall not take advantage of this rule to cut in front of another which is on final approach to land or to overtake that aircraft.'After I re-joined the pattern and safely landed on Runway 10 about 10 minutes later; I was led by an airport marshal to park my airplane next to the one that had cut me off. The pilot and any person(s) who had been on the aircraft had departed the area.I would like to see the ALB FSDO investigate the pilot who nearly caused a mid-air collision with my airplane. He not only caused alarm to myself; but he horrified my 10-year-old nephew on his first single engine flight over water. I am grateful for my good aeronautical training to take evasive action to voluntarily break-off; climb; and go-around. The pilot of the [other aircraft] appeared; at the very least oblivious to my presence and radio transmissions; but I believe to be reckless in his actions to speed up; since; he has a faster aircraft; and dive dangerously below my altitude to race me to the runway. This could have ended disastrously.
GA pilot reported being cutoff on final at BID by another GA aircraft that necessitated a go-around.