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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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 20 stages, 9 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,786 m runway.
Rolled from 78 m in, drifted 2.4 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 10 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 439 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,417 m of runway left; then climbing at 250 fpm on average to 439 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.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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.
One stabilised approach gate: six 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 and wings more than 10° from level.
When the approach was stable
Not every check held at once from 0.7 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 0.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 130 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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 76 m right of the centreline at 0.7 nm, then inside the band from 0.2 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 26 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +10 kt on the approach speed of 52 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 22 ft, 159 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 40 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 98 m in, 207 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 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 270 fpm at the flare to 20 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.5° on the way down. Into the flare at 56 kt, 4 kt over the 52 kt approach speed, and 46 kt at touchdown.
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 1,786 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.3 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 98 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.16 G arrival bounced.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 45 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 18 s, an average deceleration of 0.05 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.
The rest of the report
Departure from Cotswold Airport, EGBP, commenced with a roll down runway 26, where the Piper Cub accelerated to liftoff speed of 44 kt in a distance of 213 m, representing 13% of the available runway length. The aircraft then transitioned into a steady climb, with the local weather conditions of 20 °C temperature and a 3 kt headwind at 232° contributing to a smooth ascent.
Following a brief enroute level cruise, lasting 2 minutes and covering 2 nm, the aircraft began its descent for a go-around on runway 26 at EGBP Cotswold Airport. The go-around was initiated at an altitude of 12 ft agl, and the aircraft subsequently transitioned into a final approach from the east, heading 255.0° at 1 nm and 302 ft agl. The landing was executed on runway 26, which had a length of 1,618 m, with a threshold height that was considered good. The aircraft touched down at a speed of 36 kt, with a touchdown distance of 135 m, and a touchdown rate of 28 fpm, which was deemed perfect. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 15 °C temperature and a 1 kt headwind at 270°.
The flight concluded with a total distance of 23 nm, which was covered in 33 minutes, and a fuel consumption of -3 kg. The performance of the aircraft was satisfactory, with the landing being executed with precision and control. The runway touchdown alignment was also perfect, indicating a high level of pilot skill and situational awareness.
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