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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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 98 kt with 6.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 113 kt, 12 kt under its 125 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 811 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,029 m of runway left; gear up at 26 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,360 fpm on average to 811 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 1,926 m runway.
Rolled from 68 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.8 m left, in 5 kn of crosswind from the 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3°.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: gear up until 3.1 nm, fast until 1.2 nm, sinking too fast until 0.8 nm, left of the centreline until 0.4 nm, high from 3.5 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 3.5 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 1,000 ft over).
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.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 2.0 nm, then drifted 167 m left between 2.0 and 0.4 nm, then inside the band from 0.4 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 44 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.4 nm (up to +59 kt), then inside the band to 2.1 nm, then fast to 1.2 nm (up to +36 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Excellent landing flare
7 kt across from the right, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 84 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 113° at 9 kt · 6 kt head · 7 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 91 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.26 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 724 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 32 ft, 162 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 7 ft, 43 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 93 m in, 212 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 724 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 420 fpm at the flare to 10 fpm at 7 ft, then back up to 460 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.9° 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 724 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.8 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 5.8 m 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 93 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 456 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Santa Fe Municipal Airport (KSAF) took approximately 5 minutes, covering a short distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed runway 15, with a takeoff distance of 530 meters, which accounted for 27% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was achieved at 99 knots, as the aircraft lifted off into the local weather conditions, characterized by a temperature of 14°C and a wind of 20 knots at 149°.
As the aircraft climbed away from KSAF, it began its enroute climb, reaching an altitude of 17,010 feet above sea level in 8 minutes, covering a distance of 25 nautical miles. The climb was a significant increase of 9,877 feet from the initial altitude of 7,134 feet. The aircraft then transitioned into a level cruise, maintaining an altitude of 17,010 feet for 49 minutes, covering a distance of 164 nautical miles. The cruise phase was followed by a descent, which began 8 miles southeast of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and resulted in a decrease of 8,514 feet in altitude over a distance of 28 nautical miles. The aircraft then leveled off again, this time at 1 mile southwest of Monument, Colorado, for a brief 9-minute period, covering 27 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 05 at Everitt Airport (1CO8) was initiated from the southwest, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 59.0° at 3 nautical miles and 2,001 feet above ground level. The landing was executed with a threshold speed slightly below the target at 91 knots, and the touchdown distance was good at 182 meters. The touchdown speed was also within acceptable limits at 84 knots, and the touchdown rate was firm at -332 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.8 meters from the centerline, but the runway rollout alignment was very good. The total landing distance was 483 meters, accounting for 59% of the runway length. The total flight distance was 249 nautical miles, taking approximately 67 minutes, and the aircraft used 172 kilograms of fuel.
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