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Maintain a smooth pitch
See Departure Roll
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 66 kt with 3.7° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 87 kt target, at 91 kt on average.
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 526 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 594 m of runway left; gear up at 73 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 970 fpm on average to 526 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 1,224 m runway.
Rolled from 76 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 2 m right, in 12 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 27 % 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. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high all the way, banked until 2.2 nm, gear up until 2.1 nm, no landing flap until 1.9 nm, right of the centreline until 1.6 nm, fast from 1.4 nm and sinking too fast from 0.2 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 2° band in green.
High from 2.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 820 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 356 m right of the centreline at 2.5 nm, then inside the band from 1.6 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.5 nm, where the final began, to 1.9 nm (up to +46 kt), then inside the band to 1.4 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +26 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 258° at 15 kt · 15 kt head · 0 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 839 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 34 ft. Touched down 319 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 839 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 930 fpm at the flare to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.1° 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 839 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 11 m left of the centreline and drifted to 15 m left on 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 319 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.05 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
Departure from Reichelsheim Airfield (EDFB) commenced with a rollout on runway 18, utilizing 349 meters, or 28% of the available runway length. The Piper PA-24-250 Comanche accelerated to a liftoff speed of 67 knots, clearing the ground at a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 14 knots from 240 degrees. The crosswind component was 13 knots, while the headwind component contributed 7 knots to the overall airspeed.
As the aircraft transitioned to the enroute climb phase, it began ascending from 692 feet above sea level to 3,444 feet, a vertical gain of 2,752 feet in 5 minutes. This climb phase covered a distance of 12 nautical miles, positioning the aircraft for a level cruise phase. The cruise phase, initiated 2 miles north of Hirzenhain, lasted 4 minutes and spanned 10 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent towards Hoherodskopf Airfield (EDX1), aligning with runway 25 from the east at a heading of 239.0 degrees and 2 nautical miles from the threshold.
The final approach and landing phases were conducted in a temperature of 14 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 15 knots from 260 degrees. The crosswind component was minimal, with a headwind component of 14 knots contributing to a reduced groundspeed. The threshold speed was higher than desired at 90 knots, while the touchdown speed of 75 knots was excessive. The touchdown rate was also hard at -423 feet per minute. The aircraft landed on runway 25, utilizing 92% of the available runway length, and rolled out with a slight misalignment from the centerline. The total landing distance was 771 meters, and the aircraft consumed 9 kilograms of fuel during the 14-minute flight, covering a total distance of 25 nautical miles.
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