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Departure
Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 0.4 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 0.4 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 101 kt, 14 kt above the 87 kt target, and lifted off at 105 kt 0.7 s later, the nose coming up at 3.8° 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 432 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 428 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,090 fpm on average to 432 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 1,093 m runway.
Rolled from 166 m in, never more than 1.1 m off the centreline, in 7 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 31 % 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.
Left-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 1.1 nm out at 113 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 1.8 nm, where the final began, to 1.3 nm (up to 400 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.
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.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 1.8 nm, never more than 145 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 1.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.6 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +16 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 held the target profile well. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.6° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 69 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
5 kt across from the right, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 80 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 038° at 6 kt · 1 kt tail · 5 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 82 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 23 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 1,093 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 20 ft, 154 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 5 ft, 45 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 69 m in, 236 m short of 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 1,093 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 520 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° 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 full 1,093 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.1 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 2.3 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.
The 69 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Lancair Legacy taxied to runway 30 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield and departed on a roll of 363 m, which was 33 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 101 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 9 °C, wind 8 kt from 038°, crosswind 8 kt, tailwind 2 kt.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 22 seconds, averaging 1,096 fpm and reaching 127 kt at the top of the climb.
The left-hand circuit from runway 30 lasted 4 minutes. The downwind leg was 3 nm and was flown in 95 seconds at 1,010 ft agl; the base leg was 1 nm and was flown in 48 seconds.
Final approach descended from 1,016 ft agl to 32 ft agl in 66 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway showed gear down, landing flap, sink rate and on-speed were met; on-glideslope was not met.
Landing was on runway 30, runway length 1,093 m, with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 82 kt, noted as well above target. The flare was described as great, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 69 m from the threshold at 80 kt, which was fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 197 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 613 m, 56 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 11 nm in 10 minutes and used 3 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was temperature 10 °C, wind 6 kt from 038°, crosswind 6 kt, tailwind 1 kt.
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