Date: 201810
Local time of day: 0601-1200
Location: ZZZ.Airport, US
Flight conditions: VMC
Weather elements / visibility: 10
Light: Daylight
Aircraft: PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Operator: Personal
Operating under: Part 91
Flight plan: None
Mission: Training
Flight phase: Takeoff / Launch
Second aircraft: Small Aircraft
Reporter organization: FBO
Reporter qualification: Flight Crew Student
Human factors: Training / Qualification; Confusion; Distraction; Communication Breakdown; Situational Awareness; Time Pressure
Second reporter function: Pilot Not Flying; Instructor
Anomaly: Conflict Ground Conflict; Less Severe; Ground Event / Encounter Object; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Excursion Runway
Detector: Person Flight Crew
When detected: In-flight
Result: Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Contributing factors: Procedure; Human Factors
Primary problem: Human Factors

Narrative: I started a lesson with a flight instructor with the intention of my first solo flight. We did some pattern work together with several trips in the pattern before I departed from the Instructor waiting area for my 3 solo takeoffs and landings. After the first lap in the pattern I taxied clear of the runway and back to the departure end of runway. I was waiting initially behind the hold short line at the approach end of Runway because of an aircraft on short final. After the aircraft completed its touch-and-go; I made the appropriate call and began crossing the hold short line onto runway. Immediately after taxiing onto runway; 2 aircraft on a downwind in the pattern called a go-around due to my aircraft being on runway; I immediately made the decision to taxi off the runway before lining up with center line or beginning a take-off roll. Even as I began taxiing looking for a left turn out; aircraft overhead were over-flying me and calling go-around. I made the radio call of my intentions to exit the runway shortly after I began a left turn to [exit the runway]. My taxi speed seemed to be a normal taxi speed; airspeed indicator was not alive and my left rudder pressure was constant however; it felt like my left wheel was skidding once 90 degrees from runway centerline; causing a more dramatic loop and loss of control. About 2 seconds into the left turn the aircraft turned sharply to the left 90 degrees; going off the runway and pivoting left again once on the dirt into a taxiway sign before coming to a complete stop. I shut off the engine immediately and notified over CTAF frequency of the current situation. I then shut off all electrical systems.I believe the cause of the entire situation was a lack of understanding of uncontrolled airports under high volume of aircraft operations. I also think I was over-saturated with tasks thinking about too many external factors leading to not judging the turn properly.


Second narrative: During the student pilot first solo flight; after doing 1 full stop taxi back takeoff/landing on runway; student pilot proceeds onto runway; then immediately hears a plane report needing to go around for plane on runway. The student pilot thinks he has made a mistake and he is in trouble; holding position on runway; watching multiple small planes go around overhead. Then he proceeded to taxi down runway and then exit; in order to return to his flight instructor standing along the taxiway. The plane turned hard to the left; before the runway exit; leaving the runway; turning 180 degrees to the left; and stopping on top of the runway exit sign. The student pilot shut down the engine immediately. He wasn't hurt at all; but there was damage to the propeller and underside of the left wing from hitting the runway exit sign.


Synopsis: Flight instructor and student pilot reported a loss of control and runway excursion when the solo pilot attempted to taxi clear of the runway.