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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 103 kt with 6.7° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 144 kt, 17 kt under its 161 kt target.
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 523 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 187 m of runway left; gear up at 47 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,370 fpm on average to 523 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 882 m runway.
Rolled from 126 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.1 m left. Airborne 62 % 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 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: no landing flap set, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 11 kt above the approach speed of 94 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, banked until 1.1 nm, high until 1.1 nm and right of the centreline until 0.6 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 1° band in green.
High from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to 1.1 nm (up to 160 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 253 m right of the centreline at 1.4 nm, 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 24 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 14 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +37 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
The flare strayed well off the target profile. Crossing the threshold 12 kt above target, the flare took all the sink out 42 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft then dropped the rest of the way, 226 fpm of sink coming back. Touchdown was 697 m past the threshold. Hold the attitude and let it settle rather than pushing - a balloon is almost always excess speed, so the fix is on the approach, not in the 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 head · 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 87 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 15 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 87 ft, 37 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 51 ft. Touched down 697 m in, 392 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 470 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at 45 ft, then back up to 490 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.8° 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 first 1,524 m of the 3,660 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 11 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 13 m right at the widest.
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.
Touched down 697 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 490 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Departing from OODI Dib Dibba Airport, the OV-10 Bronco began its journey with a smooth departure roll from runway 01. The aircraft accelerated down the 552-meter runway, covering 62% of its length, before lifting off at a speed of 103 knots. The local weather conditions were favorable, with a temperature of 16°C and a gentle wind of 3 knots from 269°.
As the aircraft climbed away from Dib Dibba, it began its enroute climb, ascending from 596 feet above sea level to 7,830 feet in just 7 minutes, covering a distance of 28 nautical miles. The climb was characterized by a steady increase in altitude, with the aircraft reaching a maximum rate of climb of 7,234 feet in the allotted time. The enroute descent phase began 6 miles south-east of Qeshm, where the aircraft descended from 7,779 feet to 4,449 feet in 5 minutes, covering 22 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, lasting 2 minutes and covering 6 nautical miles, before beginning another climb phase 8 miles north of Bandar Abbas. The final descent phase began 14 miles north of Bandar Abbas, where the aircraft descended from 6,314 feet to 417 feet in 5 minutes, covering 19 nautical miles.
The OV-10 Bronco finally began its final approach to runway 21L at OIKB Bandar Abbas International Airport, descending from 389 feet above ground level to touch down on the runway. The landing was characterized by a touchdown speed of 88 knots and a hard touchdown rate of -450 feet per minute. However, the touchdown point was 235 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 11.2 meters from the centreline. The total landing distance was 1,024 meters, covering 28% of the runway. After a smooth rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, completing its journey of 85 nautical miles in 25 minutes, using 151 kilograms of fuel in the process.
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