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A flight instructor and his student; practicing wheel landings in a PA-18 super cub; lost control on landing; performed a ground loop; departed the runway; powered across one ditch; avoided another and came to rest on a taxiway after scraping a wingtip. Minor damage and no injuries resulted.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1101684 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201307 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0001-0600 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | PA-18/19 Super Cub |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | None |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 95.7 Flight Crew Total 356.4 Flight Crew Type 319.5 |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Trainee Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 28 Flight Crew Total 106 Flight Crew Type 9 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Track / Heading All Types Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft Ground Excursion Runway Ground Incursion Taxiway Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control |
Narrative:
Tailwheel training. Upon teaching wheel landings to a student; the stick was not moved forward to kill the lift for landing. Thus; rudder authority was lost and we skidded off the runway into a ditch. I had the controls immediately after we went for the ditch. I added full power to avoid flipping nose over in the ditch. We crossed this ditch and were heading towards another ditch on the opposite side of the taxiway. I decided to not chance a second ditch crossing and tried to keep it on the taxiway. At this point in time; the tailwheel locked and we rotated counterclockwise and the right wing skidded across the ground. The only damage was on the right wing tip next to the aileron.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A flight instructor and his student; practicing wheel landings in a PA-18 Super Cub; lost control on landing; performed a ground loop; departed the runway; powered across one ditch; avoided another and came to rest on a taxiway after scraping a wingtip. Minor damage and no injuries resulted.
Narrative: Tailwheel training. Upon teaching wheel landings to a student; the stick was not moved forward to kill the lift for landing. Thus; rudder authority was lost and we skidded off the runway into a ditch. I had the controls immediately after we went for the ditch. I added full power to avoid flipping nose over in the ditch. We crossed this ditch and were heading towards another ditch on the opposite side of the taxiway. I decided to not chance a second ditch crossing and tried to keep it on the taxiway. At this point in time; the tailwheel locked and we rotated counterclockwise and the right wing skidded across the ground. The only damage was on the right wing tip next to the aileron.
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.