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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
Add power on final to keep the approach speed at 76 kt rather than letting it decay before the threshold.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 72 kt, 4 kt below the target, and touchdown followed with a firm, high sink rate arrival. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries through to a firmer touchdown as the flare runs out of energy.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 76 kt at the threshold.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 16 stages, 13 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 64 kt, 6 kt below the 70 kt target, and lifted off at 70 kt 0.2 s later with 3.7° 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 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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 857 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 860 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,450 fpm on average to 857 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 1,293 m runway.
Rolled from 33 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.8 m left. Airborne 11 % 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, 1.3 nm out at 128 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.
Steep: 52° 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 WorkSteep: 53° of bank.
The 45-degrees-behind-the-wing cue assumes you can turn your head and use peripheral vision. Downwind spacing cues like "put the wingtip halfway up the strut" assume a fixed, known eyepoint. Neither survives a monitor unmodified. If you fly on a fixed monitor, stop pretending and fly a numbers-based circuit.
Read more in Pattern WorkSteep: 46° of bank.
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 1.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 60 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.
Joined 392 m left of the centreline at 1.4 nm, then inside the band from 0.9 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 1.4 nm, where the final began, to 0.6 nm (up to +28 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
The aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 019° at 6 kt · 6 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.
Side view — the last 1,293 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 23 ft, 171 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 50 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 48 m before the threshold.
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 1,293 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.
Plan view — the full 1,293 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
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 48 m short of the threshold. The 1.67 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
The Extra 330 departed EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield on runway 36. The take-off roll was 169 m, 13 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 64 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 9 °C, wind 7 kt from 019°, with a 3 kt crosswind component and a 7 kt headwind component.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl lasted 34 seconds, averaging 1,206 fpm and reaching 131 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then entered a left-hand circuit for runway 36. The downwind leg was 2 nm and was flown in 60 seconds at 740 ft agl; the base leg was less than 1 nm and was completed in 33 seconds.
On final approach to runway 36 the descent was from 538 ft agl to 78 ft agl in 51 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway showed gear down, sink rate and glideslope met, but landing flap and speed were not met. The aircraft crossed the threshold at a speed slightly below target, 72 kt.
Touchdown occurred 48 m short of the threshold. Touchdown speed was 63 kt and the vertical rate was -161 fpm, both recorded as good. The touchdown point was 6.6 m off centreline. Two bounces were observed after touchdown. The flare was described as a great landing flare. Runway rollout alignment was very good and the total landing distance was 647 m, 50 % of the 1 293 m runway.
The flight covered 8 nm in 4 minutes and used 2 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was temperature 9 °C, wind 6 kt from 019°, with a 2 kt crosswind component and a 6 kt headwind component.
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