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C172 instructor pilot reported his student experienced a runway excursion during landing roll that may have been related to a wake turbulence encounter.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1441107 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201704 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | SFB.Airport |
| State Reference | FL |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172 |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Commercial |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter |
Narrative:
Student went on a solo cross country. Student claims that his approach speed was 65 kts. He did a normal landing and after touchdown the aircraft drifted off the centerline to the left. Student does not remember if the longitudinal axis of the airplane was parallel to the runway. And he is not sure what caused the aircraft to drift off the runway. Student says that he was scared to use right rudder as it would have toppled the airplane. The tower also asked the student to use caution for wake turbulence from departing traffic on [a parallel] runway.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: C172 instructor pilot reported his student experienced a runway excursion during landing roll that may have been related to a wake turbulence encounter.
Narrative: Student went on a solo cross country. Student claims that his approach speed was 65 kts. He did a normal landing and after touchdown the aircraft drifted off the centerline to the left. Student does not remember if the longitudinal axis of the airplane was parallel to the runway. And he is not sure what caused the aircraft to drift off the runway. Student says that he was scared to use right rudder as it would have toppled the airplane. The tower also asked the student to use caution for wake turbulence from departing traffic on [a parallel] runway.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.