GA pilot reported aircraft was too high but instead of going around; reporter decided to land aircra...

Attributes
ACN	1746492
Time
Date	202006
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
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	VFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 5 Flight Crew Total 178 Flight Crew Type 178
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach

Narrative:

I was PIC and the only person on board. On my turn from downwind to final I noticed my airspeed was at 60 so I took action to increase my air speed in the course of doing this I found that when I turned to final for runway xx at ZZZ I was too high. I put the aircraft into a slip to get down. When I rounded out of the slip I was over the runway numbers and doing 79 knots. I should have gone around but instead made the bad decision to try to try to force the plane onto the runway. When I touched down before the mid way point of the runway I was still too fast and locked up the breaks. This resulted a sideways skid into the grass on the left side of the runway. I went 30 feet into the grass. There was no damage to the airplane or injury to me. I taxied back to the hanger for inspection. Maintenance confirmed no damage. Looking back now I should have just gone around after I was not happy with my downwind to base turn.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: GA pilot reported aircraft was too high but instead of going around; reporter decided to land aircraft resulting in a runway excursion.

Narrative: I was PIC and the only person on board. On my turn from downwind to final I noticed my airspeed was at 60 so I took action to increase my air speed in the course of doing this I found that when I turned to final for Runway XX at ZZZ I was too high. I put the aircraft into a slip to get down. When I rounded out of the slip I was over the runway numbers and doing 79 knots. I should have gone around but instead made the bad decision to try to try to force the plane onto the runway. When I touched down before the mid way point of the runway I was still too fast and locked up the breaks. This resulted a sideways skid into the grass on the left side of the runway. I went 30 feet into the grass. There was no damage to the airplane or injury to me. I taxied back to the hanger for inspection. Maintenance confirmed no damage. Looking back now I should have just gone around after I was not happy with my downwind to base turn.

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.