An instructor pilot and his student continued to practice touch and go landings following a hard lan...

Attributes
ACN	953090
Time
Date	201106
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Tower
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Sundowner 23
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Descent
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	VFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Landing Gear
Person 1
Function	Instructor
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 20 Flight Crew Total 1800 Flight Crew Type 2.5
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

Narrative:

While performing emergency procedures review as a part of the pre-solo requirements per far 61 we experienced a hard landing that did damage to the strut of the aircraft. On climb out power was smoothly reduced to idle to simulate an engine failure on takeoff at approximately 50-100 ft. After power reduction the aircraft's nose was lowered; however the aircraft experienced a sink rate that was not recoverable by full use of the elevator to flare the aircraft.after the landing did not appear to have done any damage based on initial ground handling characteristics; we continued to do touch and goes and; once done and clear of the runway; we realized that the airplane had experienced strut damage from the first landing. We taxied the airplane to tie down and maintenance was called.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An instructor pilot and his student continued to practice touch and go landings following a hard landing from a simulated engine failure on takeoff. Only after completing the flight did they discover they had damaged the undercarriage.

Narrative: While performing emergency procedures review as a part of the pre-solo requirements per FAR 61 we experienced a hard landing that did damage to the strut of the aircraft. On climb out power was smoothly reduced to idle to simulate an engine failure on takeoff at approximately 50-100 FT. After power reduction the aircraft's nose was lowered; however the aircraft experienced a sink rate that was not recoverable by full use of the elevator to flare the aircraft.After the landing did not appear to have done any damage based on initial ground handling characteristics; we continued to do touch and goes and; once done and clear of the runway; we realized that the airplane had experienced strut damage from the first landing. We taxied the airplane to tie down and Maintenance was called.

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.