Instructor pilot in an aeronca chief reported the student lost directional control on landing and st...

Narrative:

I was flying with the owner of a tailwheel aircraft who had just purchased the airplane. I was in the right seat as instructor and he was in the left seat as PIC. It was agreed to prior to the flight that he would be the PIC as required by his insurance company. In addition; the airplane only had brakes on the left side; and it was discussed prior to takeoff that the owner would be responsible for application of brakes during the flight. An approach to landing was being made with a 30 degree crosswind; wind speed about 8 KTS. The owner was attempting a wheel landing. He had a slight bounce and the airplane turned to the left; not aligned with the runway.I attempted to recover by applying aileron into the wind and opposite rudder to align with the runway. The airplane was in contact with the ground and I felt that applying full power for a go-around at that point would make the swerve worse and that brakes applied correctly would correct the swerve. I told the owner to apply right brake; the aircraft continued to turn to the left and the plane had turned from [one] runway onto [another] runway at the intersection; [and] I repeated [my instruction] to apply the brake. The plane was on the outer south edge of the runway and just prior to the aircraft stopping the prop struck a runway light. Proper application of brakes could have prevented the event.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Instructor pilot in an Aeronca Chief reported the student lost directional control on landing and struck a runway light.

Narrative: I was flying with the owner of a tailwheel aircraft who had just purchased the airplane. I was in the right seat as instructor and he was in the left seat as PIC. It was agreed to prior to the flight that he would be the PIC as required by his insurance company. In addition; the airplane only had brakes on the left side; and it was discussed prior to takeoff that the owner would be responsible for application of brakes during the flight. An approach to landing was being made with a 30 degree crosswind; wind speed about 8 KTS. The owner was attempting a wheel landing. He had a slight bounce and the airplane turned to the left; not aligned with the runway.I attempted to recover by applying aileron into the wind and opposite rudder to align with the runway. The airplane was in contact with the ground and I felt that applying full power for a go-around at that point would make the swerve worse and that brakes applied correctly would correct the swerve. I told the owner to apply right brake; the aircraft continued to turn to the left and the plane had turned from [one] runway onto [another] runway at the intersection; [and] I repeated [my instruction] to apply the brake. The plane was on the outer south edge of the runway and just prior to the aircraft stopping the prop struck a runway light. Proper application of brakes could have prevented the event.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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	1012077
Time
Date	201205
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Bellanca Aircraft Corp Undifferentiated or Other Model
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Instructor Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50 Flight Crew Total 1880
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Object Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

Instructor pilot in an aeronca chief reported the student lost directional control on landing and struck a runway light.