PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Flight Crew Student
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 4.2; Flight Crew Total 26.8
Human-Machine Interface; Situational Awareness; Other / Unknown
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure; Airport
I was a student on my cross country and I had an accident on landing. I contacted my instructor and his response was that; 'If you're asked by the NTSB; tell them we did three touch and goes before you left' I was a little troubled by that request. As I got home that night; he also left a message that night on my voicemail asking me to come by and see him and don't enter that flight in my log book until we talk. So the next day I went over to the airport where I really wanted to insure I was covered by the insurance and he said I was; but he need to make some entries in my log book to protect us both on the insurance; I said I didn't understand what my logbook had to do with the insurance and I said I wasn't comfortable allowing him to enter flights that didn't happen. He then stated unless he did these entries we weren't covered by the insurance. I said I'd go get it at home but never returned. So I made some inquiries on this with another flight instructor and a few pilots and they said he was trying to cover his ass because he should have flown with me at least within a 90 day period before I did this flight and he should have done a flight plan where it would have stated the wind conditions and he would have seen on the NOTAMs that the runway for landing into the wind was closed for painting and only Runway 9 was being used which had a crosswind. So I'm troubled on what to do. He just wants to protect himself and he should have insured I was ready for this task; I could have been killed and no one would know about his actions. The last thing he said before I departed for this flight was I needed to pay up on the balance I owed.
A student pilot reports a landing incident while on a cross country flight. The reporter's instructor wishes to make entries in the students' logbook for flights that did not occur; which the reporter rejects.