Small Aircraft; Low Wing; 1 Eng; Fixed Gear
Flight Crew Student
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 31.3; Flight Crew Total 36; Flight Crew Type 36
Workload; Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification; Distraction
Ground Excursion Runway; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; Flight Crew Became Reoriented; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition
Human Factors; Weather
While doing a touch and go I was correcting for a slight crosswind.  I had my left wing slightly down for the crosswind approach.  I was higher off the runway then I perceived; so the plane came down on the left landing gear harder then expected.  This force; along with the correction being put in for the crosswind started to yaw the plan to the left.  I put in full power to try and go around; but it was to late.  The rotating force had me facing off the runway.  Adding power allowed me to level the wings and bring the plane to a safe stop off the side of the runway.  I contacted the tower and taxied off the grass onto a taxiway.  No damages were done.  I think if I would have had more power in on the approach that I could have recovered without going off the runway.
A Student pilot misjudged his Liberty XL2 height during landing and after a bounce he added power to arrest the descent so that the crosswind correction plus the P factor rotated his aircraft causing it land off the runway's edge.