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Retract gear by 400 feet
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 75 kt with 5.9° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 121 kt, 7 kt over 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 1,322 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 404 m of runway left; gear up at 702 ft, 302 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,080 fpm on average to 1,322 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 971 m runway.
Rolled from 76 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 9.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 8.9 m left, in 9 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 35 % 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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: left of the centreline all the way and banked until 1.1 nm.
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 1.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 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, 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 136 m left of the centreline at 1.4 nm.
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 −4 kt and +39 kt on the approach speed of 83 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 244° at 16 kt · 16 kt head · 1 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 66 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.28 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 628 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 38 ft, 107 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 7 ft, 43 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 65 m in, 240 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 628 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 680 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° 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 full 628 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.5 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.1 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 65 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.14 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
Departing from Oeventrop Airfield (EDDJ), the Bonanza G36 began its takeoff roll on runway 29, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 75 kt in a distance of 346 m, which accounted for 36% of the available runway length. The aircraft then transitioned into a climb, commencing 1 mile north of Arnsberg, and ascended from an initial altitude of 2,082 ft asl to 2,935 ft asl, a vertical gain of 853 ft, within a 2-minute period. This climb phase covered a horizontal distance of 4 nm.
As the aircraft continued its enroute phase, it transitioned into a level cruise, commencing 4 miles southwest of Mohnesee. This cruise phase lasted for 6 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 17 nm. The aircraft then began its descent, aligning itself with runway 24 at Hamm-Lippewiesen Airfield (EDLH), which it approached from the northeast. The aircraft maintained a heading of 215.0° at 2 nm and 868 ft agl, before touching down on the runway.
The landing was executed with a threshold speed of 80 kt, which was within the acceptable range. However, the touchdown speed of 77 kt was slightly above the optimal value. The touchdown rate of -191 fpm was satisfactory, and the runway touchdown position was only 4.1 m off-centerline. The total landing distance of 215 m accounted for 35% of the available runway length, and the runway rollout alignment was excellent. The aircraft used a total of 8 kg of fuel for the 25 nm flight, which lasted 11 minutes.
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