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Know your rotation speed
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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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 for a circuit: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
Side view — the last 1,277 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,277 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 451 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Cessna 172SP from parking to the runway at EDMA Augsburg took a total of 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The departure roll on runway 25 was 1,906 ft, which accounted for 45% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 82 kn. The local weather at the time of departure was 60 °F, with a wind speed of 1 kn at 269 °, resulting in a headwind of 1 kn.
After departing from runway 25, a left-hand pattern entry was made, covering less than 1 nm in 44 seconds. This was followed by a left-hand pattern crosswind leg, covering less than 1 nm in 35 seconds. The pattern downwind turn covered a distance of 2 nm, with an angle to the runway of 48.1 °. The pattern downwind leg covered 3 nm in 94 seconds, and the pattern base leg turn covered 1 nm, with an angle to the runway of 40.2 °. The pattern base leg covered less than 1 nm in 23 seconds, followed by the pattern final turn which covered less than 1 nm in 16 seconds.
The landing on runway 25 at EDMA Augsburg was completed with a runway length of 4,188 ft. The height at threshold was 53 ft agl, with a speed at threshold of 63 kn. The touchdown occurred 1,474 ft from the threshold at a speed of 58 kn, with a VSI of -177 ft/m. The local weather during landing was 60 °F, with a wind speed of 1 kn at 270 °, resulting in a headwind of 1 kn. The total landing distance was 2,458 ft, which accounted for 59% of the runway length.
After landing, taxiing back to the parking area from the runway took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 8 nm, taking 75 minutes to complete and using 4 lbs of fuel.
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