PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Flight Crew Student
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 22; Flight Crew Total 41; Flight Crew Type 41
Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification
Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged
Human Factors
I went on a solo flight in a PA-28-161. After checking the weather and getting a briefing from my flight instructor I preflight the plane and taxied to Runway XX. After completing my runup and pre takeoff checklist items I departed and made left traffic for Runway YY as instructed by the Tower. I was cleared for a touch and go and I made my approach at 80 knots and with 10 degrees of flaps. I landed the plane nose wheel first and the plane bounced. After that the plane began to porpoise and I eventually lost control; after which the plane went off the runway and settled nose down in the grass. I had a small scrape on my elbow but I was otherwise unharmed. Afterwards I briefed by instructor on what had happened and he gave me advice on how to prevent anything similar from happening in the future.
I dispatched a student pilot to make a solo flight in the pattern at ZZZ airport. I gave him a pre-flight brief on runway and taxiway markings and go arounds. On [his] first landing; after being cleared for a touch and go; [he] made a nose wheel landing which progressed to full proposing and loss of control. The prop struck the runway and afterwards the plane veered off into grass at which time it seems the nose gear sheared off. This was [his] fifth solo flight and I have since briefed him on how to prevent nose-wheel landings in the future and also how and when to go around for a rejected landing.
A student pilot lost control of a PA-28 during landing after initially landing on the nose wheel. The aircraft departed the runway surface and settled nose low in the grass.