On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:12:20 -0800, Mike the Strike wrote:

I witnessed a PIO by a Grob 103 at our club a couple of weeks ago - it
resulted from an attempted landing at too high a speed with first
contact by the nosewheel and, as far as I remember, either no or very
little applied airbrake.

Unless I misunderstood you, first contact by the nosewheel as you
described indicates a failure to round out. In which case:

(1) its pilot error pure and simple

(2) you'd expect that it would break something due to either a
PIO or mashing the nosewheel up into the fuselage.

I'd expect the same result regardless of whether the glider was a G.103
or an ASK-21.


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