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Departure
Use rudder and aileron to hold the extended centreline, correcting drift before it reaches -2.3°.
What happened: During the initial climb the heading drifted -2.3° off the runway track.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level on the runway track
Arrival
Roll the downwind turn with smaller, coordinated aileron and rudder inputs so you roll out on the base heading without needing a correction.
What happened: The downwind turn was flown with 39° of bank, well beyond a normal turn, and base leg then carried a heading error of 9.8°. An overbanked turn like this usually rolls out short of the extended centreline, leaving that heading correction to be worked out on base.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold a standard, moderate bank angle through the downwind turn.
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 51 kt with 9.4° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 694 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 973 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,140 fpm on average to 694 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.
Plan view the roll down the 1,224 m runway.
Rolled from 65 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.1 m left. Airborne 9 % 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.
Left-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 1.2 nm out at 124 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Steep: 42° of bank.
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
Read more in Pattern WorkOff heading: 10° from the leg's heading on average.
Good: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 80 ft below the slope.
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.
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 from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to 0.3 nm, then 11 m right of it from 0.3 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +32 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
Perfect landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 62 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 159° at 10 kt · 10 kt head · 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.
Side view — the last 1,224 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 34 ft, 105 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 272 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 1,224 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 540 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° 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 1,224 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.8 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.5 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 272 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.25 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Extra 330 departed EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield on runway 18. Takeoff used 126 m, 10 % of the runway, and liftoff occurred at 52 kt. Local weather was 16 °C with wind 10 kt from 159°, giving a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 10 kt head-wind component.
The aircraft climbed to 400 ft agl in 35 seconds, averaging 951 fpm and reaching 137 kt at the top of the initial climb. The left-hand circuit around runway 18 lasted 3 minutes. The downwind leg was 2 nm and was flown in 62 seconds at 840 ft agl; the base leg was less than 1 nm and was completed in 27 seconds.
On final approach to runway 18, descent began from 510 ft agl to 27 ft agl in 67 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were: gear down, sink rate, on glideslope and on speed - all met; landing flap - not met. The aircraft was configured for landing with the appropriate speed and glide path.
Touchdown occurred on runway 18 with a threshold speed of 76 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown speed was 62 kt, touchdown rate was smooth at minus 121 fpm, and the touchdown distance was 272 m. The aircraft landed slightly off centreline by 4.4 m and experienced one bounce on touchdown. Total landing distance was 643 m, 53 % of the 1,224 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The flight covered 9 nm in 5 minutes and consumed 2 kg of fuel. The landing weather matched the departure weather: 16 °C, wind 10 kt from 159°, with a 3 kt cross-wind and a 10 kt head-wind component.
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