Skylane 182/RG Turbo Skylane/RG
Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 204; Flight Crew Total 429; Flight Crew Type 26
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft
Human Factors
Flying in the traffic pattern practicing power off 180's (short field landings). In the downwind we check wheels down and did our CCGUMPS check (carb heat; cowl flaps; gas; undercarriage; mixture; prop) Saw a green light in the cabin indicating gear down; no gear horn; both me and the PIC; a commercial pilot working on becoming a CFI; checked out our windows for gear down and confirmed gear was down. When we came a-beam the 1000 'footers' or our touch down point she reduced the throttle to idle and pitched for an airspeed of 75 knots and put in 10 degrees of flaps. We then made a radio call for a base to final turn and also announced it was a practice short approach. No one else was in the traffic pattern at the time. The PIC flew the plane down landed long of our intended touch down point. I instructed to use the rudders to work back to the center line as we were a bit to the right of it; she did so and once back on center line she began to clean up the airplane for takeoff. She retracted the flaps to zero; put the carb heat in (cold) and promptly proceeded to put the gear extending/retracting lever into the UP position while we were still on the ground.I believe this problem arose due to the PIC not thinking and trying to rush inside the airplane.This problem was discovered when our nose wheel strut retracted and the prop and cowling of the plane struck the ground and the plane then slide to a stop.Contributing factors would be lack of familiarity with the aircraft for the PIC; lack of discipline and attentiveness while in a critical phase of flight.Corrective actions; I don't believe there was anything I could have done at the time of the incident to prevent her from putting the gear up. She did it much too quickly for me to react and we were at a slow enough airspeed that the gear immediately retracted. In the future I plan to cover the gear handle with my hand while in the landing phase of flight; advise the flight school to change its policies for complex aircraft operation and only allow full stop taxi backs; and also change the school's training procedures to include; retracting flaps; putting in carb heat; and other clean up procedures with only one finger because in order to put the gear up you have to pull the lever out and then raise it up.
Today my instructor and I were practicing my landings in the C182RG. My instructor had no place to be at the time and I really wanted to improve my landings as my checkride was in 2 days. We were probably rolling on about 1.5 or so Hobbs I wasn't feeling tired or sick of it so we kept going. I was practicing a power off 180 we had just landed and were about to practice another. I go to clean the airplane up so we can get going again. I put the flaps up; carb heat in; and gear selector up. Wait gear slector up?! We're still on the ground at this point. I obviously should have not put the gear selector up. But I did... it was a BIG slip. I've flown complex airplanes before and had never once caused an incident like this. I know how to fly a complex airplane without a question. This type of complex airplane was new to me; but I don't think that was the root of the problem. I think the problem was I was going too fast. I don't recall looking at what I was grabbing as much as I should have. Even though I know what the gear handle selector feels like I should have slowed down. Slowing down what I was doing I feel would have very likely eliminated this situation.
C182RG instructor and CFI student reported the gear lever was raised while on the ground during a touch and go landing which resulted in a nose gear retraction and prop strike.