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Improve the touchdown
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 106 kt with 4.3° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 126 kt, 20 kt under its 146 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 1,003 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 100 m of runway left; gear up at 171 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,440 fpm on average to 1,003 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 956 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 2.7 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 72 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, about 240 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 80 ft above the slope.
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 449 m right of the centreline at 1.1 nm, then inside the band from 0.7 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 51 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 30 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −14 kt and +2 kt on the approach speed of 101 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
Great landing flare. It lost 2.2 points, partly for rising 2 ft agl in the flare.
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 80 kt. Touched down with the nose 3° right of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 069° at 7 kt · 6 kt tail · 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.
From 89 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.24 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 981 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 37 ft, 244 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 8 ft, 42 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 2 ft from 6 ft. Touched down 169 m in, 136 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 981 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 the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 110 fpm before coming down at 440 fpm to touch. The nose came up 1.4° 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 981 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.1 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2.3 m left 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 169 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.74 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at EDNL Leutkirch-Unterzeil Airfield took approximately 5 minutes, covering a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its departure roll on runway 24, utilizing 91% of the available runway length to achieve a takeoff distance of 713 meters. Liftoff speed was reached at 106 knots, with a local temperature of 15°C and wind conditions favoring a tailwind of 8 knots.
As the aircraft transitioned into the enroute phase, it began climbing from an initial altitude of 3,144 feet above sea level to 10,106 feet, an increase of 6,962 feet over a distance of 12 nautical miles. This climb was achieved in just 3 minutes, demonstrating the aircraft's efficient performance capabilities. Subsequently, the aircraft initiated its enroute descent from 10,108 feet to 2,055 feet, a decrease of 8,053 feet over a distance of 22 nautical miles, taking 6 minutes to complete. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 22 at EDMB Biberach an der Riß Airfield, aligning itself with the runway from the north east.
The aircraft landed on runway 22, utilizing 67% of the available runway length, with a touchdown distance of 168 meters. The touchdown speed of 80 knots was within acceptable limits, while the touchdown rate of -291 feet per minute was fair. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 6 meters. Following a smooth rollout, the aircraft came to a stop, having utilized 83 kilograms of fuel over the course of the 36-nautical-mile flight, which lasted approximately 15 minutes.
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