Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 150; Flight Crew Total 1150
Situational Awareness
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
As I was taxiing out to Runway 20 at FIT I was coming up to the second to last taxiway on the right; where I observed [another light aircraft] coming towards the taxiway from the hangar. I observed the pilot in [that aircraft] taxiing head down at a normal taxi speed. He was not able to see me and I had to hard brake to a point where the squeaking from my brakes was able to startle him enough where he raised his head. He stopped on the intersection at about my 2 o'clock position; and he was looking at me at which point he made a radio call apologizing that he 'did not see me there' I asked him to please keep his head up when taxiing; because if it was anyone else taxiing around not looking up; there would have been a taxiway collision where my prop would have been eating through his wing.
C152 pilot reported braking abruptly to avoid a collision on a taxiway at FIT airport.