Instructor pilot reported that while flying with a student they struck the ground with the tail of t...

Attributes
ACN	1741968
Time
Date	202005
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	Small Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Fuselage Tail Cone
Person 1
Function	Instructor Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft

Narrative:

After having taken an X week break for coronavirus; I was doing a currency flight with my student. Student had performed well on all other tasks. We came in for landing and did a few normal touch and goes before practicing short fields. During one of the short field landings; the student was holding the plane in the flare and we struck the tail on the ground. We noticed it after the flight due to the bent skid plate. The plane was immediately taken for a maintenance inspection.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Instructor pilot reported that while flying with a student they struck the ground with the tail of the aircraft during landing.

Narrative: After having taken an X week break for Coronavirus; I was doing a currency flight with my student. Student had performed well on all other tasks. We came in for landing and did a few normal touch and goes before practicing short fields. During one of the short field landings; the student was holding the plane in the flare and we struck the tail on the ground. We noticed it after the flight due to the bent skid plate. The plane was immediately taken for a maintenance inspection.

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.