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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 97 kt with 9.7° 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 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 600 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft at the runway end; then climbing at 1,740 fpm on average to 600 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 512 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline. Airborne 79 % of the way down the runway, past 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.0 to 0.5 nm, then not again: 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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 230 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.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 136 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 46 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 27 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.4 nm (up to +49 kt), then inside the band to 0.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +19 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
Great landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 3 kt · 2 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 85 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 37 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 19 ft, 31 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 261 m in, close to 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 420 fpm at 17 ft to 40 fpm at 9 ft, then back up to 270 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° 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 1,831 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.4 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 261 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a quick taxiing process from the parking area to the runway, taking less than 1 minute and covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Beechcraft Duke, then departed from runway 30 at KANP Lee Airport, with a takeoff distance of 404 meters, which accounted for 79% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 97 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of KANP Lee Airport, it encountered local weather conditions of -1°C temperature and a wind speed of 2 knots at 270°. The crosswind was 1 knot, and the headwind was 2 knots. The enroute climb started overhead the airport, with the aircraft ascending from 664 feet above sea level to 9,011 feet above sea level, an increase of 8,347 feet in 6 minutes, covering a distance of 13 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began 1 mile east of Riviera Beach, Maryland, and lasted for 21 minutes, covering a distance of 72 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its enroute descent 2 miles south east of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, descending from 8,991 feet above sea level to 5,713 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,279 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise resumed overhead Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, and lasted for 17 minutes, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its enroute descent overhead Blue Bell, descending from 5,713 feet above sea level to 2,596 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,116 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 13 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started again 2 miles north of Richboro, Pennsylvania, and lasted for 10 minutes, covering a distance of 17 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent 1 mile south east of Blawenburg, New Jersey, descending from 2,601 feet above sea level to 1,343 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,258 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 24 at KTTN Trenton Mercer Airport was made from the north east, with a heading of 231.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,165 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 24 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 261 meters, a touchdown speed of 85 knots, and a touchdown rate of -257 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the local weather conditions remained the same.
The total landing distance was 865 meters, which accounted for 47% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect. The taxiing process from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 136 nautical miles, taking 54 minutes, and the aircraft used 129 kilograms of fuel.
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