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Arrival
Add power on short final to hold 118 kt over the threshold instead of letting speed decay.
What happened: Threshold speed was 12 kt below the 118 kt target, and the sink was arrested at 7.6 ft while already slow, so the aircraft settled as the speed ran out, producing a firm touchdown at 194 fpm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 118 kt at the threshold
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 128 kt with 6.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 165 kt, 14 kt under its 179 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 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 919 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,208 m of runway left; gear up at 75 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,450 fpm on average to 919 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 3,474 m runway.
Rolled from 157 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 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. 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 1.3 nm, then not again: slow from 1.3 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 30 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 15× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 25 m off the centreline.
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 59 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 35 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.3 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −12 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 mostly held the target profile. The flare took all the sink out 8 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 274 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 508 m past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
8 kt across from the right, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 91 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 239° at 9 kt · 2 kt tail · 8 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 39 ft, 11 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 15 ft; ballooned 8 ft from 1 ft. Touched down 508 m in, 204 m past 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 280 fpm before coming down at 190 fpm to touch. The nose came up 4.8° 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 2,993 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.4 m of it down 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.
Touched down 508 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from UBBQ Gabala International Airport, the Honda HA420 began taxiing from the parking area to runway 16, a process that lasted 9 minutes and spanned 2 nautical miles. The takeoff roll measured 990 meters, representing 29 % of the available runway, and the aircraft achieved liftoff speed of 129 kt. At departure, the temperature was 35 °C, with a wind of 9 kt from 159°, yielding a crosswind component of 1 kt and a headwind of 8 kt.
The climb phase commenced 1 mile south of the departure airport, with the aircraft ascending from 2,077 ft to 30,007 ft, an increase of 27,930 ft over 12 minutes while covering 52 nm. Level cruise began 4 miles northwest of UBGO Tanrykulular Airport, lasting 7 minutes and covering 48 nm. Descent started 8 miles northeast of Qaraxanli, dropping from 30,009 ft to 3,061 ft-a decrease of 26,948 ft in 21 minutes over 95 nm.
Approach to runway 13R at UGTB Tbilisi International Airport was from the northwest, heading 137.0° at 4 nm and 1,460 ft AGL. The aircraft touched down 223 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 91 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 240 fpm and a runway alignment offset of 4.8 m from the centreline. The landing distance was 1,573 m, 52 % of the runway length. Overall, the flight covered 203 nm in 47 minutes, consuming 313 kg of fuel.
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