Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 250; Flight Crew Total 1440; Flight Crew Type 400
Communication Breakdown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged
Human Factors
I was instructing a new student pilot in his second lesson. For takeoff I was in the controls and I told him I would tell him when to pull on the yoke to rotate. My mistake was not telling him how hard to pull. He pulled the yoke very hard till it nearly hit the stops resulting in a tail strike which broke the tail tie down ring off the airplane. I pushed hard forward recovering the airplane and continued the takeoff under my control. I did not realize there had been a tail strike otherwise I would have circled around to land. When I got back to the ramp I realized the ring was missing and realized it had to have been from the tail strike. It will not happen again because I will always describe a rotation to a student in greater detail and guard the controls more closely with new students [are] doing takeoffs.
C172 instructor reported experiencing a tail strike during rotation due to student pulling to hard on the yoke.