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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
Arrival
Keep easing the back pressure to let the aircraft settle from 14 ft instead of holding it level.
What happened: The sink was arrested at 14 ft and held there instead of being let down.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: continuous descent through the normal flare band to touchdown
See Arrival Landing
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated late
The nose came up at 87 kt, 19 kt after the 68 kt rotate speed.
The pull started after the rotate speed had gone by. Bring the airspeed into the scan as it approaches the rotate speed, so the pull starts on the number rather than when you notice it has passed.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,037 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 5.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.9 m right. Airborne 13 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 884 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,157 m of runway left; then climbing at 650 fpm on average to 884 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 300 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 300 ft gate: speed more than 18 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: no landing flap until 1.8 nm, high until 1.2 nm, left of the centreline until 0.6 nm, fast from 2.6 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.
Why this is not a circuit
Off and back onto EDDS, scored as a flight. A circuit passes all five:
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 4 nm to 2.1 nm, then high to 1.2 nm (up to 490 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.
Joined 3,484 m left of the centreline, then inside the band 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.6 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +35 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
The flare mostly held the target profile
The flare took the sink out 14 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft flew down from there. Touchdown was 481 m past the threshold. Let it come lower before checking the descent - holding off high uses runway and leaves the touchdown to chance.
Touchdown
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 50 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 24 ft. Touched down 481 m in, 177 m past 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 1,524 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 400 fpm at the flare to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° on the way down. Into the flare at 75 kt, on the 73 kt approach speed, and 59 kt at touchdown.
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 first 1,524 m of the 3,335 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.6 m left of the centreline. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 224° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 1 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 481 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Commander 114 taxied to runway 07 at EDDS Stuttgart Airport and commenced the departure roll, achieving a take-off distance of 415 m which represented 14 % of the runway length; liftoff occurred at 88 kt. Ambient conditions were 20 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 224°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
Climb began one mile north-west of Neuhausen auf den Fildern, rising from 2,152 ft asl to 2,633 ft asl, an increase of 481 ft achieved in one minute while covering one nautical mile.
Level cruise was initiated one mile north-west of Denkendorf and persisted for five minutes, during which the aircraft traversed nine nautical miles.
Descent started one mile west of Kongen, descending from 2,762 ft asl to 1,414 ft asl, a loss of 1,348 ft over two minutes and a distance of three nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 25 at EDDS Stuttgart Airport was flown from the east on a heading of 254.0°, with the aircraft at 0 nm from the threshold and 161 ft agl; weather remained 20 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 224°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Landing on runway 25 was executed on a runway 3,335 m long; the threshold speed was 78 kt, touchdown occurred 479 m down the runway at 59 kt, the vertical speed was minus 65 fpm, and runway alignment was very good.
In total the flight covered 17 nm, took 9 minutes, and consumed 54 kg of fuel.
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