Grob 103 glider pilot reported landing short of the runway when the winds changed during his approac...

Attributes
ACN	1434451
Time
Date	201703
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	Sail Plane
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 Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 4 Flight Crew Total 1642 Flight Crew Type 95
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Object Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

The incident occurred on my fifth flight of the day. All landings to that point were uneventful. On flight five; I entered the landing pattern at 2100 ft MSL; when turning base; noticed stronger head winds (winds were from 130-140 at 20 gusting to 26 mph). I was plenty high at 500 ft on final; so I deployed the spoilers and realized making the runway was questionable because of late-day wind shear. I closed spoilers and figured I could make it to the grass under-run; which I did. However; at this point I was low and slow and touched down about 20 feet from the runway on the grass under-run; rolled over the threshold from the grass to the hard runway surface and curved left to the adjacent grass to the east of the runway; where the plane struck two runway lights with the left wing. No one was injured; and I reported the broken lights to the FBO personnel.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Grob 103 glider pilot reported landing short of the runway when the winds changed during his approach.

Narrative: The incident occurred on my fifth flight of the day. All landings to that point were uneventful. On flight five; I entered the landing pattern at 2100 ft MSL; when turning base; noticed stronger head winds (winds were from 130-140 at 20 gusting to 26 mph). I was plenty high at 500 ft on final; so I deployed the spoilers and realized making the runway was questionable because of late-day wind shear. I closed spoilers and figured I could make it to the grass under-run; which I did. However; at this point I was low and slow and touched down about 20 feet from the runway on the grass under-run; rolled over the threshold from the grass to the hard runway surface and curved left to the adjacent grass to the east of the runway; where the plane struck two runway lights with the left wing. No one was injured; and I reported the broken lights to the FBO personnel.

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.