Light Sport Aircraft
Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 10; Flight Crew Total 225; Flight Crew Type 55
Workload; Other / Unknown; Time Pressure
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control; General Maintenance Action
Human Factors; Weather
Upon flaring for landing at the orange dot; a gust of wind elevated plane to 10-15 FT and then died; causing aircraft to stall and impact the nose wheel; propeller; and the left wing. Nose wheel was damaged such that the aircraft would only turn to the left and I taxied off the runway onto the grass on the north side of the runway. Minor damage to nose wheel assembly; damage to the wood propeller; and slight paint scrape on bottom of the left wing. All of the activity associated with the approach to and landing probably contributed to my inability to recover from the aircraft position after the gust displaced it and pressured me into continuing the attempt to land instead of attempting a go around. Due to the implied pressure of all of the landing traffic and the disruption that a go around would cause; it may have influenced my decision to not attempt a go around when the aircraft first reacted to the wind gust. Potential action to help the situation may be to emphasize in the NOTAM that a pilot should not feel pressured to not make a go-around for any reason if he/she feels it to be necessary and that if a go-around is executed that the aircraft will be worked back into the pattern ASAP without having to return to the transition point to start the arrival all over again.
Light Sport Aircraft pilot reports losing control of his aircraft due to a wind gust during the landing flare. A go-around is not attempted due to the pressures of the fly in.