DA20 aircraft pilot experienced a propeller strike during landing in gusty conditions.

Attributes
ACN	1328896
Time
Date	201601
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	DA20 Undifferentiated
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 Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 28 Flight Crew Total 190 Flight Crew Type 25
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

Departed airport. Advised by CFI not to return to originating airport as originally planned because winds had changed and now were too high. CFI would meet me at alternate airport to fly the plane back. Upon nearing the new airport I checked in flight AWOS report. AWOS was reporting winds of 170 at 6 gusts to 14 knots. I descended for normal approach and continued to the runway. After landing; a gust of wind buffeted the airplane causing the aircraft to become airborne at low speed. This resulted in a nose down contact with the runway with insufficient elevator authority to hold the nose off the ground; resulting in a prop strike. Once I got the aircraft stopped; I turned off the runway onto the ramp.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: DA20 aircraft pilot experienced a propeller strike during landing in gusty conditions.

Narrative: Departed airport. Advised by CFI not to return to originating airport as originally planned because winds had changed and now were too high. CFI would meet me at alternate airport to fly the plane back. Upon nearing the new airport I checked in flight AWOS report. AWOS was reporting winds of 170 at 6 gusts to 14 knots. I descended for normal approach and continued to the runway. After landing; a gust of wind buffeted the airplane causing the aircraft to become airborne at low speed. This resulted in a nose down contact with the Runway with insufficient elevator authority to hold the nose off the ground; resulting in a prop strike. Once I got the aircraft stopped; I turned off the Runway onto the ramp.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.