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Arguing with him would have been the worst thing to do. So to avoid a more complicated and technically correct outcome, I decided to enjoy more time in the air flying.

My concern is exacerbated by knowledge that my students are nearly universally afraid to question/query tower/ground control at this airport.

After landing and while cleaning the airplane, the Aircraft Y pilot drove up to my hangar and berated me in front of my wife for “screaming into the traffic pattern at too high an airspeed and being only 400 feet below him and they were talking to center with a Bravo clearance (wrong, ZZZ Tracon owns the Class B around here so he would be talking to Approach, not Center) and even the SIC (Second in Command) Center Controller didn’t see you” and loads of other garbage. You get the drift.

I did not know what a Phenom was and turned final to land number two behind a single-engine aircraft that was touching down.

My student asked me if we should go look at it. However, I told myself that there was no way we hit the wingtip because I gave my student enough distance. My thought process was I’ve been to the run-up area before and I know the distance to turn.

Reflecting on the occurrence, I believe I selected the correct approach and landing configuration for the existing conditions, however I allowed myself to become distracted with traffic and ATC communications, causing me to deviate from the number one priority — FLY THE AIRPLANE.

Immediately after takeoff, at approximately 100 feet AGL, I found myself in IMC.

The student told me afterward that they panicked and took out the power because they thought of a video of a plane crashing into a hangar they had seen earlier. They thought that would happen if they left the power in.

This near-miss brought to my attention my lack of taking action to prevent it.