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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
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 71 kt with 7.1° of pitch.
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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 404 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,395 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,150 fpm on average to 404 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 5,011 ft runway.
Rolled from 476 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 9 ft at the widest, and lifted off 4 ft right, in 13 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 17 % 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.
At the 300 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: right of the centreline from 0.6 nm and fast from 0.5 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 1.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 90 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, 1,000 ft 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 1,120 ft left of the centreline at 1.1 nm, then 120 ft right 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to 0.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +20 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 poor landing flare
11 kt across from the right, which takes about 11° of crab to hold the centreline at 58 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, 2° of bank.
Wind 209° at 15 kt · 10 kt head · 11 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 111 ft, 61 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 901 ft in, close to the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 770 fpm at 110 ft to 0 fpm at 84 ft, then back up to 720 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 11.7° 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 5,000 ft of the 5,011 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 28 ft right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 28 ft right 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 901 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.12 G arrival bounced 3 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 16 at CYXL Sioux Lookout Airport, where the Van's RV-14 aircraft took off with a takeoff distance of 511 ft, which is 10% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 71 kt. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 77 °F and a wind speed of 17 kt at 210 °, resulting in a crosswind of 13 kt and a headwind of 11 kt.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead CYXL Sioux Lookout Airport. The aircraft climbed from an altitude of 1,685 ft asl to 2,546 ft asl, an increase of 861 ft in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 2 nm. The climb was a smooth and efficient one, allowing the aircraft to reach its desired altitude quickly.
After reaching its cruising altitude, the aircraft began its enroute descent, which started 1 mile northeast of CYXL Sioux Lookout Airport. The descent was from an altitude of 2,533 ft asl to 1,496 ft asl, a decrease of 1,037 ft in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 1 nm. The descent was also a smooth and controlled one, allowing the aircraft to reach its desired altitude without any issues.
As the aircraft approached the airport for landing, it began its final approach to runway 16 from the northwest, heading 157.0 ° at 0 nm and 252 ft agl. The landing was made on runway 16, which has a length of 5,011 ft. However, the threshold height at 111 ft agl was excessively over target, and the threshold speed was too high at 72 kt.
Despite the initial issues, the touchdown distance was good at 829 ft, and the touchdown speed at 58 kt was a little fast. However, the touchdown rate was heavy at -684 fpm, indicating a slightly rough landing. Additionally, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 28 ft from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 78 °F and a wind speed of 15 kt at 209 °, resulting in a crosswind of 12 kt and a headwind of 10 kt.
The total landing distance was 1,459 ft, which is 29% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was excessively misaligned by 163 ft from the centreline, indicating a slightly rough rollout. However, the taxiing to the parking from the runway took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight was a relatively short one, covering a total distance of 3 nm and taking 4 minutes to complete. The aircraft used 3 lbs of fuel during the flight, indicating a relatively efficient use of resources.
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