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Improve the pattern crosswind leg
Each lap slightly wider and higher than the last, because you're unconsciously using the previous lap as your reference instead of the runway and the numbers. Invisible lap to lap, unmistakable across ten. This is the failure that only measurement catches, because your memory of lap three is gone by lap eight.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 69 kt with 2.9° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 773 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 385 m of runway left; then climbing at 960 fpm on average to 773 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.
Plan view the roll down the 1,244 m runway.
Rolled from 588 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 6.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.5 m right. Airborne 49 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.5 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 150 ft under).
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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 226 m right of the centreline at 1.6 nm, then inside the band from 1.0 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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −11 kt and +29 kt on the approach speed of 65 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
Touchdown
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 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.
From 55 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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.
Side view — the last 1,244 m of the approach.
Touched down 26 m in, 278 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 1,244 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 stayed between 70 fpm and 110 fpm from 1 ft to the runway. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,244 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8.3 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 11 m left at the widest.
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 26 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 23 at EHLE Lelystad Airport, where the aircraft, a PA28 Warrior II, accelerated down the runway and lifted off at a speed of 70 kt. The takeoff distance was 54 m, which accounted for only 4% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 15 °C and a gentle wind blowing at 2 kt from a direction of 270 °, resulting in a negligible crosswind and headwind.
As the aircraft entered the left-hand traffic pattern from runway 23, it demonstrated a swift and efficient turn, covering a distance of less than 1 nm in just 47 seconds. Upon completing the turn, the aircraft then made a left-hand pattern crosswind, which it navigated in a remarkably short distance of less than 1 nm in 22 seconds. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 05, descending from an altitude of 411 ft at a heading of 39.0 ° from the south-west.
The landing on runway 05 was executed smoothly, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 53 kt and a distance of 23 m. The touchdown rate was an impressive -70 fpm, indicating a gentle and controlled descent. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 8.3 m. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were identical to those at takeoff, with a temperature of 15 °C and a wind blowing at 2 kt from a direction of 270 °, resulting in a negligible crosswind and tailwind.
The total landing distance was 321 m, which accounted for only 26% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned from the centreline by 11.9 m. Despite these minor deviations, the overall performance of the aircraft during the landing was satisfactory. The total flight distance was 3 nm, and the flight duration was 3 minutes, during which the aircraft consumed 1 kg of fuel.
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