Skylane 182/RG Turbo Skylane/RG
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
On a go around in VFR conditions my student selected the flaps to 'up' on the climb out and started to have control issues. He asked me if I had done anything to the airplane I had not and stated as such. He continued to have control issues; I called for my airplane and took control of the airplane. I did a quick troubleshoot and saw that the bottom half of the Right flap had not come up and was twisted in the down position. The Left flap was full up and the circuit breaker was popped. I reset the breaker and put the flaps back to the position that matched the left side flaps. We then landed the aircraft without further incident.
Reporter stated the flap that was misaligned and would not retract was the Right wing flap; not the Left wing flap position. The Left flap did retract to full up. He was the Instructor sitting in the right seat and just got the positions confused when he was writing the NASA report. The Inboard (I/B) end of the Right flap was stuck in the Flaps Extend position as the Outboard (O/B) leading edge end of the same flap started to retract. Flap movement stopped when the flap canted (twisted); overloading the Flap motor and popping the Circuit Breaker. There appeared to be some sort of bracket sticking up at the inboard end of the jammed flap; where the flap rollers are located. He did not know what Maintenance actually found was the cause of the asymmetric position of the Right flap. The Student pilot in the Left seat was the owner of the aircraft.
A Flight Instructor reports about a Right Flap Assembly that jammed at the inboard flap track on a Cessna C-182 aircraft during flap retraction. The Right flap outboard leading edge continued to retract until the asymmetric position of the flap overloaded the flap motor; popping a circuit breaker.