An instructor pilot and his student reacted to a failing engine when in the traffic pattern and clea...

Narrative:

While practicing traffic pattern operations at a towered airport with a student pilot; the engine would not react fully to the student's power input. Once the situation was established; I took the controls. At this point in time we were cleared touch and go from a left hand traffic pattern. I advised the tower that the aircraft would be going around. This bought more time for us to decide as to a course of action. Because multiple traffic were in the pattern for the active runway; I decided to make a full stop landing on the cross wind runway. Tower advised of traffic to follow and how to enter the pattern for the cross wind runway. Once established; carb heat was applied and flaps were used to slow the aircraft. Once on final the power was reduced to idle and the aircraft made a normal landing. Once on the ground; I attempted to keep the aircraft on the runway and exit on a taxiway. Power could not be kept so the aircraft was shut down once off the runway on a high speed taxiway. Tower gave us taxi instructions to which I asked for a tow back into the ramp. When asked for information on why a tow was necessary I advised of troubleshooting currently going on. The situation was over within ten minutes and; while an emergency was not initiated; I had complete control of the situation the entire time from the start of the situation until the tow of the aircraft was complete. Some lessons learned: declaring an emergency would have gotten us on the ground sooner; but was not necessary due to the power we had. Once in the pattern landing was assured.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Instructor Pilot and his Student reacted to a failing engine when in the traffic pattern and cleared for a touch and go landing. The Instructor opted to go around and then landed on a crosswind runway. The engine failed completely after landing.

Narrative: While practicing traffic pattern operations at a towered airport with a student pilot; the engine would not react fully to the student's power input. Once the situation was established; I took the controls. At this point in time we were cleared touch and go from a left hand traffic pattern. I advised the tower that the aircraft would be going around. This bought more time for us to decide as to a course of action. Because multiple traffic were in the pattern for the active runway; I decided to make a full stop landing on the cross wind runway. Tower advised of traffic to follow and how to enter the pattern for the cross wind runway. Once established; carb heat was applied and flaps were used to slow the aircraft. Once on final the power was reduced to idle and the aircraft made a normal landing. Once on the ground; I attempted to keep the aircraft on the runway and exit on a taxiway. Power could not be kept so the aircraft was shut down once off the runway on a high speed taxiway. Tower gave us taxi instructions to which I asked for a tow back into the ramp. When asked for information on why a tow was necessary I advised of troubleshooting currently going on. The situation was over within ten minutes and; while an emergency was not initiated; I had complete control of the situation the entire time from the start of the situation until the tow of the aircraft was complete. Some lessons learned: Declaring an emergency would have gotten us on the ground sooner; but was not necessary due to the power we had. Once in the pattern landing was assured.

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.

Attributes
ACN	970525
Time
Date	201109
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Tower
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Sundowner 23
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	None
Component
Aircraft Component	Engine
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 75 Flight Crew Total 1200 Flight Crew Type 150
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical

An instructor pilot and his student reacted to a failing engine when in the traffic pattern and cleared for a touch and go landing. The instructor opted to go around and then landed on a crosswind runway. The engine failed completely after landing.