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See Arrival Approach
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 83 kt with 4.1° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 106 kt, 8 kt under its 114 kt target.
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 989 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 657 m of runway left; gear up at 395 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,220 fpm on average to 989 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,293 m runway.
Rolled from 87 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 7 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.4 m left, in 8 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 29 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven 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.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: banked until 1.0 nm, gear up until 0.9 nm, high until 0.9 nm, no landing flap until 0.7 nm, fast until 0.6 nm, left of the centreline from 0.6 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.
High from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to 0.9 nm (up to 530 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 894 m right of the centreline at 1.4 nm, then 63 m left of it from 0.6 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to 0.6 nm (up to +36 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.3 points, for the nose going up and down 2 times.
9 kt across from the right, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 75 kt. Touched down with the nose 8° into wind, wings level.
Wind 296° at 13 kt · 9 kt head · 9 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 64 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.27 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 709 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 42 ft, 129 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 5 ft, 45 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 158 m in, 147 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 709 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 1,120 fpm at the flare to 40 fpm at touchdown. 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 709 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.2 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2.9 m right by the end of 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 158 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departure from Reichelsheim Airfield (EDFB) was uneventful, with the Bonanza G36 rolling down runway 36 and lifting off at a speed of 83 kt after a takeoff distance of 391 m, which accounted for 32% of the available runway. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 9 °C and a wind of 12 kt at 312°, resulted in a crosswind of 9 kt and a headwind of 9 kt.
As the aircraft climbed to 8,839 ft asl, it covered a distance of 11 nm in 7 minutes, achieving an increase of 7,136 ft from the initial altitude of 1,703 ft asl. The enroute level cruise phase lasted for 2 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 3 nm, before commencing the descent phase. The descent from 9,334 ft asl to 1,175 ft asl was completed in 7 minutes, covering a distance of 14 nm. The final approach to runway 25 at Gießen-Lützellinden Airfield (EDFL) was initiated from the east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 251.0° at 0 nm and 411 ft agl.
The landing on runway 25 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 157 m, which accounted for 77% of the available runway. The touchdown speed of 75 kt was slightly above the recommended threshold speed of 78 kt, but the touchdown rate of -70 fpm was excellent. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.7 m from the centreline. The total landing distance was 327 m, and the runway rollout alignment was very good. The total flight distance was 29 nm, and the aircraft used 9 kg of fuel, completing the flight in 17 minutes.
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