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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 338 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 156 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
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.
Rotated at 60 kt, 5 kt below the 65 kt target, and lifted off at 84 kt 6.1 s later, the nose coming up at 0.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 104 kt, 10 kt under its 114 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 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 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 995 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 564 m of runway left; gear up at 395 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,230 fpm on average to 995 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 83 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.3 m right, in 10 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 36 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set.
At the 500 ft gate: no landing flap set and speed more than 26 kt above the approach speed of 86 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap all the way, fast until 0.2 nm, left of the centreline 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 240 ft above 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 133 m left of the centreline, then inside it from 3.6 to 0.6 nm, then 22 m left of it 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.8 nm, then fast to 0.2 nm (up to +35 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.9 points, mostly for rising 2 ft agl in the flare.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 240° at 16 kt · 16 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 61 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 20 ft, 30 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft; ballooned 2 ft from 7 ft. Touched down 284 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 410 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° 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 4.9 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7 m left 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.
The 284 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft Bonanza taxied to runway 18 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield and commenced the take-off roll, covering 455 m which represented 37 % of the runway length. Liftoff was achieved at 84 kt. Ambient conditions were 20 °C with a wind of 16 kt from 228°, including a 12 kt cross-wind component and a 10 kt head-wind component.
Climb began over Florstadt, Hessen, Germany, with the aircraft ascending from 1,391 ft asl to 3,622 ft asl - a gain of 2,231 ft - in 2 minutes while traversing 5 nm.
The first cruise segment started 1 mile north of Hammersbach, Hessen, Germany, lasting 3 minutes and covering 8 nm.
Descent was initiated over Hanau am Main, Hessen, Germany, with altitude decreasing from 3,407 ft asl to 1,856 ft asl - a loss of 1,551 ft - in 3 minutes and a distance of 7 nm.
A second cruise phase commenced 1 mile south of Offenbach, Hessen, Germany, lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nm.
Final approach to runway 25L at EDDF Frankfurt Airport involved a descent from 1,359 ft agl to 9 ft agl in 145 seconds, and the aircraft was scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 25L, which is 3,986 m long, featured a threshold speed of 86 kt, a touchdown distance of 282 m, a touchdown speed of 76 kt, and a touchdown rate of minus 249 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 4.9 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 21 °C with a wind of 17 kt from 239°, a 3 kt cross-wind and a 16 kt head-wind. Total landing distance was 504 m, representing 13 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good. The flight covered a total of 29 nm, took 14 minutes, and consumed 9 kg of fuel.
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