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Departure
Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 0.3 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 0.3 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring the speed back to 73 kt well before the gate.
What happened: This flight was 30 kt fast at the stabilisation gate, and excess speed like this usually rides down the approach to cross the threshold still fast, as it did here at 84 kt against 73 kt.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 73 kt at the gate, 73 kt at the threshold
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 91 kt with 2.5° of pitch.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 813 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 385 m of runway left; gear up at 15 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,060 fpm on average to 813 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,093 m runway.
Rolled from 264 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 1.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 m right, in 5 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 45 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 22 kt above the approach speed of 73 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way and high until 1.0 nm.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to 1.5 nm, then high to 1.0 nm (up to 360 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 1.7 nm, never more than 167 m off the centreline.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +30 kt).
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Excellent landing flare. It lost 2.7 points, for starting the flare at 46 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 78 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, 3° of bank.
Wind 046° at 4 kt · 1 kt tail · 3 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 81 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 18 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,093 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 46 ft, 157 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 17 ft, 33 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 252 m in, 52 m short of the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,093 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 560 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the full 1,093 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.9 m of it down the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 252 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed from runway 30 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield. Take-off distance was 504 m (46 % of runway) and liftoff speed was 91 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 10 °C, wind 6 kt from 039°, crosswind 6 kt, tailwind 1 kt.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 44 seconds, averaging 1 087 fpm and reaching 109 kt at the top. The climb continued from 2 421 ft asl to 4 446 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 5 nm and starting overhead Puplinge. Level flight at 4 500 ft asl lasted 3 minutes, covering 10 nm and starting overhead Reignier-Esery. Descent from 4 491 ft asl to 3 858 ft asl took 2 minutes over 5 nm, beginning 1 mile north-west of Boege.
A climb from 3 842 ft asl to 7 554 ft asl lasted 11 minutes, covering 36 nm and starting overhead Habere-Poche, with brief level-offs at 4 700 ft asl and 6 500 ft asl. Level flight at 7 300 ft asl continued for 8 minutes, covering 28 nm and starting 2 miles south-west of Morgins. Descent from 7 010 ft asl to 4 755 ft asl took 3 minutes over 10 nm, beginning 1 mile north-east of Morzine.
Climb from 4 758 ft asl to 6 350 ft asl lasted 2 minutes, covering 4 nm and starting 1 mile south-east of Mieussy. Descent from 6 313 ft asl to 3 505 ft asl took 4 minutes, covering 13 nm and starting 2 miles north-east of Mieussy.
Final approach to runway 30 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield began with a descent from 959 ft agl to 46 ft agl in 61 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap and sink rate, but not met for glideslope and speed. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 1 068 ft agl, 110 kt; final flap position 2 at 755 ft agl, 106 kt.
Landing on runway 30 (runway length 1 093 m) had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was well above target at 85 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown distance was good at 252 m; touchdown speed was 78 kt and was fast. Touchdown rate was smooth at minus 115 fpm and runway-touchdown alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was temperature 9 °C, wind 3 kt from 043°, crosswind 3 kt, tailwind 1 kt. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 736 m (67 % of runway) and runway rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing to the parking from the runway took 15 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 116 nm, lasted 56 minutes and used 33 kg of fuel.
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