Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 21; Flight Crew Total 623; Flight Crew Type 512
Situational Awareness
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
General Flight Cancelled / Delayed
Human Factors
Upon landing; student pitched down excessively and corrected excessively which resulted in ballooning. As student was flaring; I noticed an excessive rate of sink very close to the runway. I corrected with pitch and power which resulted in a hard landing immediately. The aircraft landed three points on all wheels and I then taxied back to the ramp without further incident. Earlier corrective action would have been a go-around at the first sign of a bad approach and or earlier transfer of controls to the instructor.
C172 instructor describes a hard landing with his student at the controls.