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Departure
Raise the gear promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, aiming to be up by the gate.
What happened: Gear retraction was left until well after the normal gate at 0 ft agl.
Watch for: Watch gear position against the retraction height gate, not 0 ft agl.
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 16 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 17 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 503 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 503 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 203 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Piper PA-24 Comanche taxied to runway 18 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield and commenced the take-off roll, covering 351 m which represented 29 % of the runway length. Liftoff was achieved at 69 kt. Ambient conditions were 24 °C with a wind from 241° at 16 kt, including a 15 kt cross-wind component and a 7 kt head-wind component.
Climb began over Florstadt, Hessen, Germany, with the aircraft ascending from 1,048 ft asl to 3,135 ft asl - a gain of 2,087 ft - in 3 minutes while traversing 5 nm.
The first level-cruise segment started over Wolfersheim, Hessen, Germany and lasted 3 minutes, during which 6 nm were covered at a steady altitude.
Descent was initiated 1 nm north of Rockenberg, Hessen, Germany, with the aircraft descending from 2,938 ft asl to 1,377 ft asl - a loss of 1,562 ft - in 3 minutes while covering 6 nm.
A second level-cruise phase commenced 1 nm west of Rockenberg, Hessen, Germany and continued for 7 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 11 nm.
The final approach to runway 28 at EDEV Pfingstweide Airfield was flown from the east on a heading of 305.0° at 2 nm and 1,115 ft agl. Local weather at the time was 22 °C with a wind from 245° at 13 kt, providing a 7 kt cross-wind and a 10 kt head-wind component.
A go-around was executed on runway 28 at EDEV Pfingstweide Airfield when the aircraft reached 363 ft agl, after which the approach was abandoned and a subsequent approach was prepared.
Landing on runway 28 was performed with a threshold speed slightly above target at 75 kt. Touchdown occurred beyond the midpoint of the runway, using more than 50 % of the available 503 m length. The aircraft touched down at 66 kt, a little fast, with a hard touchdown rate of minus 475 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 16.3 m from the centreline.
Rollout continued for a total landing distance of 468 m, representing 93 % of the runway, and the aircraft remained misaligned by 16.7 m from the centreline during the rollout.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 32 nm, required 21 minutes of flight time, and consumed 16 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 28 at EDEV Pfingstweide Airfield was flown from the east on a heading of 305.0 ° at 2 nm and 1,115 ft agl; at the 1,000 ft gate the approach was assessed as unstable, with flaps not set and the aircraft off the glideslope, while the wind was 13 kt from 245 ° (7 kt crosswind, 10 kt headwind).
At threshold the height was good and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 75 kt; the aircraft crossed the threshold at a touchdown speed of 66 kt, a little fast, and the flare produced a hard touchdown rate of minus 475 fpm, with the touchdown point extending beyond half of the available runway.
Touchdown occurred using more than 50 % of the 503 m runway, the total landing distance was 468 m (93 % of runway), and the touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 16.3 m from the centreline.
During rollout the aircraft remained misaligned, drifting 16.7 m from the centreline before exiting the runway.
Reduce the touchdown point to within the first 300 m (approximately 1,000 ft) of runway 28 and maintain centreline alignment within a few metres to improve runway usage and overall score.
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