PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 115; Flight Crew Total 568; Flight Crew Type 30
Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification; Communication Breakdown
Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
General Flight Cancelled / Delayed
Human Factors
I received a phone call from a student saying that he had gone flying solo (which I was not informed on until after the flight. I tell all my students to text me before going to fly and once they are on the ground) and when he came in for a landing with a light crosswind coming from the right; he recognized he was slightly left of the centerline so he attempted to correct. After touchdown; due to the right crosswind; my student had left rudder in due to the sideslip situation for the crosswind; and the plane then pulled to the left. The plane then veered to the left and my student overcorrected with the right rudder resulting in him ending up in the grass. While the aircraft was moving in the grass off the right of the runway; my student attempts to stop in the grass and reports 'the aircraft pulled hard to the left causing me to cross back over the runway and coming to a rest on the left side of the runway'.This report is all [the] words from my student; as I was not at the airport due to me not knowing that the solo was happening. My student has submitted his own NASA report as well.
I'm student pilot and I was doing a student solo. I started my flight with a take off on Runway XX and did some practice ground reference maneuvers south of ZZZ. After working ground reference maneuvers at about XA:50; I headed back to the airport to land for the day. I was on final for Runway XY and had a right crosswind; and was correcting with left rudder and right aileron. When about 10-15 feet off the runway; I was slightly left of center line and as soon as I touched down; my wheel was turned left because of the rudder so my plane was jerked slightly to the left; I attempted to use right rudder to straighten the aircraft and lost control and went off the right side of the runway. I then attempted to slow down my aircraft in the grass off the runway; but the aircraft pulled hard left causing me to cross the runway; coming to a rest on the left side of the runway. During the time that I was off the runway my engine had shut down. I then turned the keys off and pulled mixture all the way out and exited out of the aircraft.
Student Pilot on a solo flight and the student's Flight Instructor reported a runway excursion occurred during crosswind landing.