Amateur/Home Built/Experimental
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Private; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50; Flight Crew Total 1800; Flight Crew Type 12
Confusion; Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Airport; Human Factors
I was flying a small tail dragger. On approach to Runway 4; a very wide (150 FT) runway; I flared a little too high which resulted in a hard landing which collapsed the right landing gear and allowed the prop to strike. The large and wide runway (much bigger than my recent experience) gave me the impression I was lower than I was; resulting in the hard landing. For others it would be helpful to double check altitude in this situation of tricky depth perception.
An experimental tail dragger aircraft pilot; used to a narrow runway; flared high and landed hard on a 150 FT wide runway because of a depth perception error. The landing collapsed the right gear and resulted in a propeller strike.