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Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 67 kt, holding a steady rotation rate rather than snatching the controls.
What happened: On the takeoff roll the aircraft bounced before becoming fully airborne.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: a smooth, continuous pitch-up through liftoff with no secondary bounce.
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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed back to 72 kt well before the gate.
What happened: Approach was fast through the stabilisation gate, and the threshold was crossed at 115 kt against the 72 kt target. Carrying that extra speed in usually carries the touchdown long, which it did here at 3,179 ft against the 1,500 ft target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 72 kt at the threshold
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 · 16 stages, 13 in the score
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: no landing flap set, centreline 12.8° off, against a 1° limit and speed 43 kt FAST on the reference speed of 72 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 4,978 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 4,978 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3,179 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The AA-5B (N20367) taxied from the parking area to runway 35 at CYBW Calgary / Springbank Airport in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 35, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 73 kt and left the ground after a takeoff distance of 1,679 ft, which represented 34 % of the runway length. Ambient conditions were 83 °F with a wind of 15 kt from 300°, including a 13 kt cross-wind component and a 7 kt head-wind component.
A go-around was initiated on runway 35 at CYBW, with the aircraft climbing to 40 ft AGL before re-establishing a climb profile.
The final approach to runway 35 was conducted from the south on a heading of 360.0°, beginning at 0 nm and 152 ft AGL. Weather at the time showed a temperature of 83 °F, wind 11 kt from 300°, a 10 kt cross-wind and a 6 kt head-wind.
Landing on runway 35, which is 4,996 ft long, occurred with a threshold speed of 115 kt. The touchdown point used more than 50 % of the available runway, and the aircraft touched down at 55 kt with a vertical rate of minus 269 fpm. The touchdown location was offset 15 ft from the centreline. Total landing distance measured 3,786 ft, representing 76 % of the runway, and the runway condition was reported as having good threshold height.
Runway rollout alignment was described as very good, with the aircraft remaining on the centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in less than 1 minute, traveling less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 8 nm, took 6 minutes, and used 0 lbs of fuel.
The final approach to runway 35 at CYBW Calgary / Springbank Airport was flown from the south on a heading of 360.0° at 0 nm and 152 ft agl, with a temperature of 83 °F, wind 11 kt from 300°, a 10 kt cross-wind component and a 6 kt head-wind component.
The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was excessively high at 115 kt.
Touchdown occurred well beyond the aim point, using more than 50 % of the available runway; the touchdown speed was a little fast at 55 kt and the vertical rate was fair at minus 269 fpm. The aircraft touched down 15 ft off the centreline and the total landing distance was 3,786 ft, representing 76 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good.
To improve the score, reduce the threshold speed toward the appropriate VREF and aim to arrest the aircraft within the first half of the runway, thereby decreasing the touchdown point and total landing distance. Maintaining precise alignment will preserve the strong rollout performance.
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