WHILE CONDUCTING A TOUCH AND GO AT PRC; A STUDENT PLT ENCOUNTERS JET BLAST FROM CITATION JET PARKED BTWN RWYS 21L AND 22R.

Date: 2004-05 · Aircraft: Cessna 152

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-published-material-policy|ground-event-encounter-loss-of-aircraft-control|ground-event-encounter-loss-of-aircraft-control

Synopsis

WHILE CONDUCTING A TOUCH AND GO AT PRC; A STUDENT PLT ENCOUNTERS JET BLAST FROM CITATION JET PARKED BTWN RWYS 21L AND 22R.

Narrative

AT THE PRESCOTT ARPT; I WAS FLYING TOUCH AND GOES ON RWY 21L. WHILE I WAS ON THE DOWNWIND FOR RWY 21L; TWR ADVISED ME TO FLY BASE FOR RWY 21R. AFTER FLYING BASE FOR RWY 21R; I TURNED TO FINAL AND WAS CLRED FOR A TOUCH AND GO ON RWY 21R. TWR THEN ADVISED ME OF WAKE TURB FROM A CITATION JET THAT WAS DOING ITS RUN-UP FOR TKOF ON RWY 21L. THE JET WAS FACING PERPENDICULAR TO RWY 21R. I LANDED ON RWY 21R AND PUT IN FULL THROTTLE TO TAKE OFF AGAIN. I PUT IN MY AILERON CORRECTIONS FOR THE BLAST COMING OFF OF THE JET. THE AIRPLANE I WAS FLYING TIPPED UP TOWARDS THE R AND ON LEAVING THE BLAST AREA FROM THE JET; MY AIRPLANE TOOK ON AN EXTREMELY HIGH PITCH ATTITUDE AND LEFT TURNING BANK. AT THAT TIME; I HEARD A SCRAPING NOISE AND THEN I ADVISED TWR I WAS GOING TO LAND ON THE REMAINING RWY. I BELIEVE THAT THE SCRAPING NOISE WAS THE TAIL HITTING THE GND. TWR CLRED ME TO CONTACT GND. I CONTACTED GND AND TAXIED BACK TO PARKING AFTER I OBTAINED CLRNC. UPON PARKING AND SECURING THE AIRPLANE I NOTICED THAT THE TAIL TIEDOWN HAD SOME DAMAGE TO IT FROM STRIKING THE GND.

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