J3 cub pilot reported that a ground loop and runway excursion resulted after landing with a quarteri...

Attributes
ACN	1497942
Time
Date	201711
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	J3 Cub
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 10 Flight Crew Total 1600 Flight Crew Type 100
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

Lost directional control on landing rollout (ground loop). Had a slight quartering tail wind. Was approaching from the south as there are fewer obstacles when landing on this narrow 1800ft strip. Aircraft departed the runway to the right. Did not do a full ground loop but sunk into an earthen drainage channel off the side of the runway. There was no damage to the aircraft that would require a report. Fortunately there was no prop strike but it was close. My error was that the aircraft was not fully stalled at touch down and the tail wheel had not made good contact with the runway surface. I should have held it off the runway surface a bit longer to achieve good slow speed directional control. A contributing factor is that the standard cub brakes are not very good. Better brakes would have allowed me to stop before sinking into the drainage channel.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: J3 Cub pilot reported that a ground loop and runway excursion resulted after landing with a quartering tailwind.

Narrative: Lost directional control on landing rollout (ground loop). Had a slight quartering tail wind. Was approaching from the south as there are fewer obstacles when landing on this narrow 1800ft strip. Aircraft departed the runway to the right. Did not do a full ground loop but sunk into an earthen drainage channel off the side of the runway. There was no damage to the aircraft that would require a report. Fortunately there was no prop strike but it was close. My error was that the aircraft was not fully stalled at touch down and the tail wheel had not made good contact with the runway surface. I should have held it off the runway surface a bit longer to achieve good slow speed directional control. A contributing factor is that the standard cub brakes are not very good. Better brakes would have allowed me to stop before sinking into the drainage channel.

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.

J3 cub pilot reported that a ground loop and runway excursion resulted after landing with a quartering tailwind.