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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 111 kt with 5.0° 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 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 915 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,379 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,860 fpm on average to 915 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,280 m runway.
Rolled from 76 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 40 m at the widest, and lifted off 40 m left. 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: banked until 0.5 nm, high until 0.2 nm, right of the centreline from 0.9 nm and sinking too fast from 0.6 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.
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 0.9 nm, then high to 0.2 nm (up to 260 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 882 m left of the centreline, then 103 m right of it 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 58 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 35 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +20 kt on the approach speed of 116 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
Excellent landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 31 ft, 19 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 324 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 1,524 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 1,070 fpm at 31 ft to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.6° 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 2,280 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 29 m right of the centreline.
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 324 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.17 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 05R at LELC San Javier Airport, where the aircraft, a PC-21, accelerated down the 732-meter runway, covering 32% of its length, before lifting off at a speed of 112 knots. The local weather conditions at the time were characterized by a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind of 1 knot from the northwest, resulting in a negligible crosswind and tailwind.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, ascending from 978 feet above sea level to 24,045 feet, a vertical gain of 23,067 feet, in just 7 minutes. This climb phase covered a distance of 15 nautical miles. The aircraft then leveled off and entered a cruise phase, flying at a steady altitude for 21 minutes, covering 21 nautical miles, before beginning its descent.
The first descent phase started 2 miles west of LESJ Aeroclub Mar Menor San Javier, where the aircraft descended from 23,685 feet to 22,613 feet, a decrease of 1,072 feet, in just 2 minutes, covering 9 nautical miles. The aircraft then leveled off again, this time flying 3 miles north of Torre de la Horadada, for 16 minutes, covering 11 nautical miles. The second descent phase began 6 miles south east of Guardamar del Segura, where the aircraft descended from 22,448 feet to 1,511 feet, a decrease of 20,937 feet, in 10 minutes, covering 16 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached LELC San Javier Airport, it began its final approach to runway 23L, flying from the north east at a heading of 237.0 degrees, at a distance of 4 nautical miles and 1,482 feet above ground level. The landing was made on the 2,280-meter runway, with a good threshold height, but the threshold speed was slightly too high at 115 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 319 meters, but the touchdown speed was a little fast at 101 knots. The touchdown rate was smooth at -114 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 29.3 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were the same as at the start of the flight, with a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind of 1 knot from the northwest, resulting in a negligible crosswind and headwind. The total flight distance was 78 nautical miles, taking 45 minutes, and the aircraft used 173 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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