Landing in a significant crosswind after a sight seeing passenger flight; the pilot of a stearman gr...

Attributes
ACN	893502
Time
Date	201006
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 Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 1550 Flight Crew Type 26
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft

Narrative:

I was giving a ride in a stearman biplane. Took off on runway xx; winds were about 220 at 10 with gusts to 15. After a 15 minute ride; I returned to the airport and was cleared to land on runway xx. The winds were about 240 at 12 with gusts to 20. I touched down and got all 3 wheels on the ground; with aileron into the wind. Just as I got to the taxiway; a gust of wind caught my airplane and started to spin me around. I immediately applied left rudder and full right aileron; but it was not enough. I spun around 180 degrees and the left wing tip rubbed on the runway. Neither my passenger nor myself were injured. I taxied back to parking and decided the crosswind was too strong to continue flying.my only other choice of runway was yy; which would have given me a 70 degree crosswind from the left rather than a 60 degree cross wind from the right. In the future I will not fly the stearman with crosswinds in excess of 40 degrees and 15 KTS.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Landing in a significant crosswind after a sight seeing passenger flight; the pilot of a Stearman ground looped the aircraft and drug a wingtip on the ground while attempting to make the first turnoff less than a quarter of a mile from the threshold.

Narrative: I was giving a ride in a Stearman biplane. Took off on Runway XX; winds were about 220 at 10 with gusts to 15. After a 15 minute ride; I returned to the airport and was cleared to land on Runway XX. The winds were about 240 at 12 with gusts to 20. I touched down and got all 3 wheels on the ground; with aileron into the wind. Just as I got to the taxiway; a gust of wind caught my airplane and started to spin me around. I immediately applied left rudder and full right aileron; but it was not enough. I spun around 180 degrees and the left wing tip rubbed on the runway. Neither my passenger nor myself were injured. I taxied back to parking and decided the crosswind was too strong to continue flying.My only other choice of runway was YY; which would have given me a 70 degree crosswind from the left rather than a 60 degree cross wind from the right. In the future I will not fly the Stearman with crosswinds in excess of 40 degrees and 15 KTS.

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.

Landing in a significant crosswind after a sight seeing passenger flight; the pilot of a stearman ground looped the aircraft and drug a wingtip on the ground while attempting to make the first turnoff less than a quarter of a mile from the threshold.