PA-20 Pacer/PA-22 Tri-Pacer
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 52; Flight Crew Total 494; Flight Crew Type 0
Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification; Human-Machine Interface
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft; Human Factors; Procedure
CFI; and I were on a training flight. It was an introduction to a tail wheel endorsement.  We were doing takeoffs and landings at ZZZ on the dirt strip. We had just gotten fuel and were going to do a few more laps. We came into land on dirt Runway XX. Everything was going fine; we touched down on the dirt and were quick on the rudders; but the plane started to swerve; and we had very little rudder control. I let off the pedals and we swerved at which point the CFI started inputting on the rudder. We swung around 180 degrees off to the side and at the end of the turn the plane tipped on its left wing. The wing tip was damaged; along with the elevator and the tail wheel itself. No injuries.What I believe caused the situation was a bumpy dirt runway; ineffective rudder control to mitigate the situation and the CFI needing to be more on the controls.
Piper 22 pilot reported a runway excursion that resulted in aircraft damage after he let his feet off the rudder pedals and the instructor pilot could not correct the aircraft's path.