Light sport aircraft pilot reports losing control of his aircraft due to a wind gust during the land...

Narrative:

Upon flaring for landing at the orange dot; a gust of wind elevated plane to 10-15 ft and then died; causing aircraft to stall and impact the nose wheel; propeller; and the left wing. Nose wheel was damaged such that the aircraft would only turn to the left and I taxied off the runway onto the grass on the north side of the runway. Minor damage to nose wheel assembly; damage to the wood propeller; and slight paint scrape on bottom of the left wing. All of the activity associated with the approach to and landing probably contributed to my inability to recover from the aircraft position after the gust displaced it and pressured me into continuing the attempt to land instead of attempting a go around. Due to the implied pressure of all of the landing traffic and the disruption that a go around would cause; it may have influenced my decision to not attempt a go around when the aircraft first reacted to the wind gust. Potential action to help the situation may be to emphasize in the NOTAM that a pilot should not feel pressured to not make a go-around for any reason if he/she feels it to be necessary and that if a go-around is executed that the aircraft will be worked back into the pattern as soon as possible without having to return to the transition point to start the arrival all over again.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Light Sport Aircraft pilot reports losing control of his aircraft due to a wind gust during the landing flare. A go-around is not attempted due to the pressures of the fly in.

Narrative: Upon flaring for landing at the orange dot; a gust of wind elevated plane to 10-15 FT and then died; causing aircraft to stall and impact the nose wheel; propeller; and the left wing. Nose wheel was damaged such that the aircraft would only turn to the left and I taxied off the runway onto the grass on the north side of the runway. Minor damage to nose wheel assembly; damage to the wood propeller; and slight paint scrape on bottom of the left wing. All of the activity associated with the approach to and landing probably contributed to my inability to recover from the aircraft position after the gust displaced it and pressured me into continuing the attempt to land instead of attempting a go around. Due to the implied pressure of all of the landing traffic and the disruption that a go around would cause; it may have influenced my decision to not attempt a go around when the aircraft first reacted to the wind gust. Potential action to help the situation may be to emphasize in the NOTAM that a pilot should not feel pressured to not make a go-around for any reason if he/she feels it to be necessary and that if a go-around is executed that the aircraft will be worked back into the pattern ASAP without having to return to the transition point to start the arrival all over again.

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	1025600
Time
Date	201207
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	Light Sport Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 10 Flight Crew Total 225 Flight Crew Type 55
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Light sport aircraft pilot reports losing control of his aircraft due to a wind gust during the landing flare. A go-around is not attempted due to the pressures of the fly in.