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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
Select landing flap to the landing setting before you reach the stabilisation gate, not later on the approach.
What happened: Landing flap was not set at the stabilisation gate, and through the flare the sink came back by 237 fpm after it had first been arrested, with the touchdown arriving firm at 219 fpm. An approach that reaches the gate unstabilised like this usually carries through to the flare losing its grip on the sink, and from there to a harder arrival than the flare alone would explain.
Watch for: Watch the flap indicator against the stabilisation gate, confirming landing flap is set before you reach it.
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 · 13 stages, 11 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 86 kt with 2.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 108 kt, 6 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 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 984 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 42 m of runway left; gear up at 187 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,340 fpm on average to 984 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 628 m runway.
Rolled from 51 m in, never more than 1.5 m off the centreline. Airborne 58 % 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 300 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 300 ft gate: no landing flap set.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.8 nm, about 250 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate.
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 1.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 170 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 220 m right of the centreline at 1.5 nm, then drifted 60 m left between 1.2 and 1.0 nm, then inside the band from 1.0 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +16 kt on the approach speed of 84 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
Very good landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 239° at 10 kt · 10 kt head · 0 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 55 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 6 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 39 ft; ballooned 2 ft from 1 ft. Touched down 381 m in, 76 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.
The sink went from 300 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at 1 ft, then back up to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.0° 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 1,697 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 11 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 11 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 381 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 219 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Departing from Hamm-Lippewiesen Airfield, the Bonanza G36 began its takeoff roll on runway 24, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 87 kt in 384 meters, which accounted for 63% of the available runway length. The aircraft then transitioned into a climb, starting 1 mile west of Hamm, and ascended from 1,332 feet above sea level to 2,621 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. This climb phase was characterized by a significant increase in altitude, with a net gain of 1,288 feet.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, lasting 2 minutes and covering 4 nautical miles, before initiating a descent 2 miles southwest of Kamen. The descent phase was notable for its steepness, with the aircraft losing 1,743 feet in altitude over a period of 4 minutes, while covering a distance of 10 nautical miles. The aircraft then transitioned into a final approach to runway 24 at Dortmund Airport, aligning itself with the runway from the northeast at an altitude of 394 feet above ground level.
The Bonanza G36 landed on runway 24 at Dortmund Airport, touching down at a speed of 62 kt and a distance of 380 meters, which accounted for 36% of the available runway length. The touchdown rate was smooth at -108 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 9.6 meters. Following touchdown, the aircraft rolled out, with a slight misalignment from the centerline by 9.7 meters. The total landing distance was 501 meters, and the aircraft used 7 kilograms of fuel for the entire flight, which covered a distance of 21 nautical miles and lasted 10 minutes.
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