A beech musketeer 23 pilot; practicing cross wind landings was unable to arrest a swerve into the wi...

Narrative:

I was landing on runway 27. Winds were 16 knots from 190; a strong left crosswind. My previous landing had been on runway 13; and I wanted to practice crosswind landings.I landed with the left wing low and nose high; slightly to the right of center-line. I lowered the right wing and then the nose. I raised flaps to increase brake effectiveness (per the poh).I believe the airplane initially swerved to the right. I then over-corrected and it swerved to the left. I did not have adequate directional control to stop the swerve. The aircraft left the runway into the (snow covered) grass on the left (upwind) side of the runway.there was no damage to the aircraft or to the runway lights; etc. The aircraft was removed from the snow with a tractor.I have landed in crosswinds stronger than this before. I believe the problem was a loss of directional control due to either 1) letting the nose wheel come down with a strong right rudder input or 2) inadvertent application of right brake.it is worth noting that I was using larger than normal snow boots. Next time I will change my footwear into sneakers before flying. I think this may have made it difficult to operate the rudders without toe brakes.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Beech Musketeer 23 pilot; practicing cross wind landings was unable to arrest a swerve into the wind after touchdown and exited the runway onto snow covered grass. No damage or injury resulted. The reporter cited large snow boots as a possible contributing factor.

Narrative: I was landing on Runway 27. Winds were 16 knots from 190; a strong left crosswind. My previous landing had been on Runway 13; and I wanted to practice crosswind landings.I landed with the left wing low and nose high; slightly to the right of center-line. I lowered the right wing and then the nose. I raised flaps to increase brake effectiveness (per the POH).I believe the airplane initially swerved to the right. I then over-corrected and it swerved to the left. I did not have adequate directional control to stop the swerve. The aircraft left the runway into the (snow covered) grass on the left (upwind) side of the runway.There was no damage to the aircraft or to the runway lights; etc. The aircraft was removed from the snow with a tractor.I have landed in crosswinds stronger than this before. I believe the problem was a loss of directional control due to either 1) letting the nose wheel come down with a strong right rudder input or 2) inadvertent application of right brake.It is worth noting that I was using larger than normal snow boots. Next time I will change my footwear into sneakers before flying. I think this may have made it difficult to operate the rudders without toe brakes.

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.

Attributes
ACN	1138596
Time
Date	201312
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	CID.Airport
State Reference	IA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Musketeer 23
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 15 Flight Crew Total 775 Flight Crew Type 185
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

A beech musketeer 23 pilot; practicing cross wind landings was unable to arrest a swerve into the wind after touchdown and exited the runway onto snow covered grass. No damage or injury resulted. The reporter cited large snow boots as a possible contributing factor.