A N3N pilot ground looped the aircraft and scraped a small section of the right wing tip and aileron...

Attributes
ACN	1023017
Time
Date	201207
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Military Trainer
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 13 Flight Crew Total 467 Flight Crew Type 33
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

Narrative:

During the second approach in pattern; upon touch down; this tail wheel aircraft began to ground loop; and during recovery and maintaining directional control on runway; right wing tip skin and small corner of right lower aileron skin was scraped on the runway surface. No structural safety issues were apparent. Although airspeed and approach was correct and stable; I believe the cause was due to beginning the flare too soon; about 6 ft higher than normal; resulting in a slightly greater descent; and very low airspeed and low rudder effectiveness; than anticipated by the pilot. Preventative action should have been to make a go-around the pattern. Corrective action will be to continue to practice good landings in the aircraft; both solo and with dual instruction; and increase hours flown in this aircraft; as the pilot last flew this aircraft over 4 months ago and has relatively low time with this somewhat hard to land aircraft.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A N3N pilot ground looped the aircraft and scraped a small section of the right wing tip and aileron on the runway after flaring too high and loosing control of the aircraft at touchdown.

Narrative: During the second approach in pattern; upon touch down; this tail wheel aircraft began to ground loop; and during recovery and maintaining directional control on runway; right wing tip skin and small corner of right lower aileron skin was scraped on the runway surface. No structural safety issues were apparent. Although airspeed and approach was correct and stable; I believe the cause was due to beginning the flare too soon; about 6 FT higher than normal; resulting in a slightly greater descent; and very low airspeed and low rudder effectiveness; than anticipated by the pilot. Preventative action should have been to make a go-around the pattern. Corrective action will be to continue to practice good landings in the aircraft; both solo and with dual instruction; and increase hours flown in this aircraft; as the pilot last flew this aircraft over 4 months ago and has relatively low time with this somewhat hard to land aircraft.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.