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Shorten the long landing
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 111 kt with 7.0° 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 962 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 381 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,040 fpm on average to 962 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 1,277 m runway.
Rolled from 64 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.5 m left. Airborne 52 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 82 kt. Touched down with the nose 5° into wind, wings level.
Wind 100° at 7 kt · 6 kt head · 3 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 1,277 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 1 ft, 49 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 489 m in, 185 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 1,277 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.
From 17 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 180 fpm before coming down at 210 fpm to touch. The nose came up 4.4° 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 1,277 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 489 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the BF 109G-6 started with a 3-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at EDMA Augsburg. The departure roll on runway 07 covered a distance of 2,194 ft, which was 52% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 111 kn. During takeoff, the local weather conditions included a temperature of 45 °F with a wind of 7 kn coming from 100°, resulting in a crosswind of 3 kn and a headwind of 6 kn.
Once enroute, the climb began 1 mile east of EDMA Augsburg and took the aircraft from 2,553 ft asl to 3,215 ft asl, an increase of 661 ft in just 1 minute and covering a distance of 2 nm. The descent phase started 1 mile northeast of Gersthofen, bringing the altitude down from 3,202 ft asl to 1,519 ft asl, a decrease of 1,683 ft in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 1 nm.
The landing took place back on runway 07 at EDMA Augsburg, which has a length of 4,188 ft. The aircraft approached with a height of 1 ft above ground level and a speed of 87 kn at the threshold. The touchdown occurred 306 ft from the threshold at a speed of 82 kn, with a vertical speed indicator showing a descent rate of -225 ft/min. The weather conditions for landing were a temperature of 46 °F, with a wind of 7 kn from 100°, resulting in a crosswind of 3 kn and a headwind of 6 kn.
Overall, the total flight distance was 5 nm, with a total duration of 16 minutes, and a fuel consumption of 47 lbs.
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