PA28 student pilot reports runway excursion during landing at airport that he has not been endorsed ...

Attributes
ACN	888707
Time
Date	201005
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Student
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 8 Flight Crew Total 42 Flight Crew Type 26
Events
Anomaly	Ground Excursion Runway Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

Narrative:

As part of solo practice; I flew a piper cherokee 180; my usual training aircraft; from the flight school to ZZZ; a distance of 23 NM. Wind was reported at 3 to 5 KTS and appeared to be in a direction almost directly down the runway. I did notice some gusts of wind on approach but these seemed to diminish near the ground. At touchdown; a gust of wind lifted the nose of the aircraft and pointed it off of the runway (75 ft wide runway). The aircraft left the runway and ended up stopped in the grass. After review of this with my instructor; although I was endorsed to fly within a 25 NM range of the flight school and believed that this included landing within that range; he informed me that I should have cleared the landing with him in advance. My recommendation is that if this is the case; the flight school should make it clear to the solo students before they send them off in an aircraft. Especially since they have been emphasizing that 'landing' is part of 'flying.'

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PA28 student pilot reports runway excursion during landing at airport that he has not been endorsed to visit by his flight instructor.

Narrative: As part of solo practice; I flew a Piper Cherokee 180; my usual training aircraft; from the flight school to ZZZ; a distance of 23 NM. Wind was reported at 3 to 5 KTS and appeared to be in a direction almost directly down the runway. I did notice some gusts of wind on approach but these seemed to diminish near the ground. At touchdown; a gust of wind lifted the nose of the aircraft and pointed it off of the runway (75 FT wide runway). The aircraft left the runway and ended up stopped in the grass. After review of this with my instructor; although I was endorsed to fly within a 25 NM range of the flight school and believed that this included landing within that range; he informed me that I should have cleared the landing with him in advance. My recommendation is that if this is the case; the flight school should make it clear to the solo students before they send them off in an aircraft. Especially since they have been emphasizing that 'landing' is part of 'flying.'

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.