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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 50 kt, not after it.
What happened: You started the rotation at 72 kt, 22 kt past the 50 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 50 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on the approach to bring the speed back to 54 kt before the stabilisation gate.
What happened: Carrying excess speed through the stabilisation gate usually rides all the way down to the runway, and this flight touched down at 67 kt, 22 kt above the 45 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 54 kt on approach and against 45 kt at touchdown.
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 11 stages, 9 in the score
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 72 kt, 22 kt above the 50 kt target, and lifted off at 73 kt 0.9 s later, the nose coming up at 4.0° a second.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 251 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 483 m of runway left; then climbing at 600 fpm on average to 251 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 1,224 m runway.
Rolled from 52 m in, drifted 3.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 21 % 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: no landing flap set and speed more than 16 kt above the approach speed of 54 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap all the way, fast all the way, right of the centreline from 0.3 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 200 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. 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 621 m left of the centreline at 2.8 nm, then inside it from 2.3 to 0.3 nm, then 10 m right of it from 0.3 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 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +62 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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.2° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 338 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 67 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 220° at 13 kt · 11 kt head · 6 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 60 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 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 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft. Touched down 338 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 330 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at 5 ft, then back up to 250 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° 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 3,986 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 13 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 338 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 254 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The JMB VL-3 Sprint departed from runway 18 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield. Take-off distance was 277 m, 23 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 72 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 12 °C, wind 9 kt from 201°, with a 4 kt cross-wind and a 9 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 24 seconds, averaging 627 fpm and reaching 129 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 555 ft asl to 1,669 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 3 nm, passing overhead Florstadt.
Level flight was maintained at 1,200 ft asl for 10 minutes, covering 22 nm, beginning about 1 mile west of EXGB Florstadt Airport.
Descent for the final approach to runway 25L at EDDF Frankfurt Airport began at 587 ft agl and continued to -86 ft agl in 104 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; they were not met for landing flap and speed.
Landing was made on runway 25L, which is 3,986 m long. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 77 kt, noted as excessively high. The flare was described as a fair landing flare with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 338 m from the threshold at a speed of 67 kt, considered excessively fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 254 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect and there was no bounce.
Total landing distance was 573 m, 14 % of the runway. The rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 12.9 m. Local weather at landing was temperature 13 °C, wind 14 kt from 220°, with a 7 kt cross-wind and a 12 kt head-wind.
The entire flight covered 29 nm, lasted 13 minutes and used 4 kg of fuel.
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