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Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 132 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 132 fpm next time
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 68 kt, on the 66 kt target, and lifted off at 70 kt 0.6 s later, the nose coming up at 1.3° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 89 kt target, at 90 kt on average.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 1,051 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 897 m of runway left; then climbing at 740 fpm on average to 1,051 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 1,524 m runway.
Rolled from 87 m in, never more than 1.3 m off the centreline. Airborne 24 % 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: no landing flap set.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.4 nm, about 790 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the flap.
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 240 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 87 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 39 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.3 nm (up to +46 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
Great landing flare. It lost 4.4 points, for touching down at 1.5°, under the aircraft's ground attitude.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 180° at 22 kt · 21 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 40 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 27 ft. Touched down 434 m in, 129 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 130 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at 1 ft, then back up to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° 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 1,643 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.6 m left of the centreline.
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 434 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.50 G arrival bounced 3 times.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 taxied from the parking area to runway 13 at KTMK Tillamook Airport in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Takeoff was made on runway 13 with a distance of 401 m, which is 26 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 68 kt. The local weather at departure was temperature 15 °C, wind 10 kt from 181°, giving a cross-wind component of 4 kt and a head-wind component of 9 kt.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 83 seconds, averaging 587 fpm and reaching 93 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,101 ft asl to 4,606 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 6 nm while passing 1 mile south of KTMK.
Cruise was maintained at 5,000 ft asl for 12 minutes, covering 20 nm, beginning 6 miles south of KTMK.
Descent began from 4,974 ft asl to 2,749 ft asl in 5 minutes, covering 9 nm, starting 1 mile north-east of Lincoln City. A level segment followed at 2,100 ft asl for 8 minutes, covering 12 nm, beginning 1 mile west of Lincoln Beach.
Final approach to runway 16 at KONP Newport Municipal Airport descended from 1,546 ft agl to 36 ft agl in 212 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level; the landing flap check was not met at one gate. The aircraft was in final flap position 2 at 740 ft agl with a speed of 82 kt.
Landing on runway 16, which is 1,643 m long, occurred with a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 73 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown was 90 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 61 kt, with a smooth rate of -133 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 7.5 m from the centreline. Three bounces were observed after touchdown. Local weather at landing was temperature 11 °C, wind 22 kt from 180°, giving a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 21 kt.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The total flight covered 53 nm in 40 minutes and used 12 kg of fuel.
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