Cessna 180 Skywagon
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 260; Flight Crew Total 12000; Flight Crew Type 58
Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged
Human Factors; Weather
First landing at an unfamiliar airfield. Clear weather and calm winds. Made a normal pattern entry; downwind; base and final approach for short field landing. On landing roll out; aircraft developed drift to the left which was corrected; but followed by right drift. Right tire found soft mud on right side of runway and right drift accelerated and progressed into a ground loop and before coming to rest in the grass to the right of the runway. Normal shutdown followed.Pilots of tailwheel aircraft must be ever vigilant of loss of directional control while landing. Soft turf on sides of the runway can make directional control more difficult.
Cessna 180 pilot reported a ground loop and runway excursion.