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Student and instructor in a stearman lost control on landing scraping their left wingtip.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 849007 |
| Time | |
| Date | 200908 |
| 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 | Stearman |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | None |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Trainee |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 10 Flight Crew Total 450 Flight Crew Type 175 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control |
Narrative:
I hired an instructor for additional training in landings and crosswind landings. We made the approach for the landing; wind 220 at 6 KTS landing runway 15. Proceeded in straight on the approach for a wheel landing. Touchdown on the main wheels continued straight down the runway as we slowed down and the tail came down we started to weather vane into the wind which lead us to the right of the runway; at that time I corrected with left rudder and we ended up on the left wheel scraping the left wing on the runway until we came to a stop on the right side of the runway in the grass. I had hired a new instructor that I was not used to flying with because my usual instructor was out of town and not available for many weeks. I thought the new instructor was having me pull the tailwheel down sooner than I was used to and he said that we were too slow to add power to get out of the situation. Talking with my original instructor I think the tailwheel might have come down sooner then it needed to in a crosswind and we could have added power to straighten it out. I was relying on the instructor for help with any incident and felt he failed to correct the problem as it was occurring.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Student and instructor in a Stearman lost control on landing scraping their left wingtip.
Narrative: I hired an instructor for additional training in landings and crosswind landings. We made the approach for the landing; wind 220 at 6 KTS landing Runway 15. Proceeded in straight on the approach for a wheel landing. Touchdown on the main wheels continued straight down the runway as we slowed down and the tail came down we started to weather vane into the wind which lead us to the right of the runway; at that time I corrected with left rudder and we ended up on the left wheel scraping the left wing on the runway until we came to a stop on the right side of the runway in the grass. I had hired a new instructor that I was not used to flying with because my usual instructor was out of town and not available for many weeks. I thought the new instructor was having me pull the tailwheel down sooner than I was used to and he said that we were too slow to add power to get out of the situation. Talking with my original instructor I think the tailwheel might have come down sooner then it needed to in a crosswind and we could have added power to straighten it out. I was relying on the instructor for help with any incident and felt he failed to correct the problem as it was occurring.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.