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See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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 7.2° 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 793 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,476 m of runway left; then climbing at 840 fpm on average to 793 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,975 m runway.
Rolled from 34 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 1.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.1 m left. Airborne 17 % 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: seven 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.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 14 kt above the approach speed of 93 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.8 to 0.6 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.6 nm and high from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
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 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 1.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.4 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 70 ft over).
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.
Joined 702 m right of the centreline at 1.8 nm, then inside it from 1.1 to 0.6 nm, then 21 m left of it from 0.6 nm to the threshold.
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 23 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 14 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm (up to +27 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Very poor landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 3 kt · 1 kt tail · 2 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 104 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.20 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 1,156 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 86 ft, 36 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 329 m in, close to 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 1,156 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 760 fpm at 86 ft to 300 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.6° 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 1,156 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8.1 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.6 m left by the end of 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 329 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.44 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight in question was conducted in an OV-10 Bronco aircraft, departing from CYXJ Fort St John / North Peace Regional Airport in Fort Saint John, British Columbia, Canada. The aircraft began its taxiing process from the parking area to the runway, which took 2 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile.
Upon reaching the runway, the aircraft initiated its departure roll on runway 21, covering a takeoff distance of 352 meters, which accounted for 18% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was recorded at 91 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 15°C, with a wind speed of 3 knots at a direction of 270°. The crosswind and headwind components were both 2 knots.
Following the departure, the aircraft began its enroute climb, starting 2 miles southwest of CYXJ Fort St John / North Peace Regional Airport. The climb took place from an altitude of 3,048 feet above sea level (asl) to 3,502 ft asl, resulting in an increase of 454 feet in 1 minute and covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 12 nautical miles. This pattern of enroute climb and level cruise was repeated at various points during the flight, with the aircraft climbing to higher altitudes and then leveling off to maintain a steady altitude.
One notable enroute climb took place 14 miles west of CDC3 Flying L Ranch Airport Dawson Creek, where the aircraft climbed from 3,472 ft asl to 4,106 ft asl, resulting in an increase of 634 feet in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
Another significant climb occurred 19 miles southwest of CBX7 Tumbler Ridge Airport Tumbler Ridge, where the aircraft climbed from 3,995 ft asl to 4,635 ft asl, resulting in an increase of 640 feet in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The aircraft also experienced a notable climb 1 mile west of CBX7 Tumbler Ridge Airport Tumbler Ridge, where it climbed from 5,334 ft asl to 8,221 ft asl, resulting in an increase of 2,887 feet in 5 minutes and covering a distance of 20 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached its destination, CYJA Jasper Airport, it began its descent, starting 19 miles south of CBX7 Tumbler Ridge Airport Tumbler Ridge. The descent took place from an altitude of 8,266 ft asl to 7,454 ft asl, resulting in a decrease of 812 feet in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 7 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 5 minutes and covered a distance of 19 nautical miles. This pattern of enroute climb and level cruise was repeated at various points during the flight, with the aircraft climbing to higher altitudes and then leveling off to maintain a steady altitude.
Upon approaching CYJA Jasper Airport, the aircraft initiated its final approach to runway 14 from the north, heading 160.0° at 1 nautical mile and 310 feet above ground level (agl). The landing was conducted on runway 14, which had a length of 1,156 meters. The threshold height at 86 ft agl was significantly above target, while the threshold speed was well above target at 98 knots.
The touchdown distance was good at 327 meters, while the touchdown speed at 97 knots was a little fast. The touchdown rate was heavy at -608 feet per minute (fpm). The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 9.6 meters from the centre
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