Light Sport Aircraft
Flight Crew Glider; Flight Crew Flight Engineer; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 6.8; Flight Crew Total 33000; Flight Crew Type 107
Situational Awareness
Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged
Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
On takeoff roll at about 45 KTS; the airplane hit a big bump in the grass runway; which put the airplane into the air. The airplane veered off the left side of the runway down into a swampy tree area. Nobody was hurt; but the Light Sport airplane sustained damage. Lesson to be learned very light airplanes are not suited to rough; bumpy sod runways.
Pilot of a light sport aircraft reported losing control on takeoff roll when he hit a bump in the grass runway. Aircraft left the runway and sustained damage.