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Arrival
Roll out of the downwind turn sooner, using coordinated aileron and rudder to hold a shallower, constant bank angle through the turn.
What happened: The downwind turn was flown with 39° of bank, and that much excess bank in the pattern usually carries through to the touchdown, as it did here with 3.3° of bank still present at touchdown.
Watch for: Bank angle indicator: a shallow, constant bank through the turns, wings level by touchdown.
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 81 kt with 4.1° 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 153 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 117 m of runway left; then climbing at 830 fpm on average to 153 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 628 m runway.
Rolled from 76 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3 m right, in 7 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 43 % 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.
Left-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 1.3 nm out at 135 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Steep: 44° of bank.
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
Read more in Pattern WorkSteep: 43° of bank.
Good: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 50 ft below 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.
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 455 m left of the centreline at 1.3 nm, then inside the band from 0.8 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +38 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.3 points, for the nose going up and down 2 times.
8 kt across from the right, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 64 kt. Touched down with 6° of it still on, 4° of bank.
Wind 271° at 15 kt · 13 kt head · 8 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 628 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 36 ft, 180 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 4 ft, 46 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 43 m in, 262 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 628 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 540 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.9° 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 628 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6.5 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 43 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.20 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
Departing from Hamm-Lippewiesen Airfield, the Extra 330 aircraft initiated its departure roll on runway 24, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 82 kt in a distance of 322 meters, which accounted for 51% of the available runway length. The aircraft lifted off into a local temperature of 17 °C, with a wind of 14 kt at 271 °, resulting in a crosswind of 8 kt and a headwind of 12 kt.
As the aircraft entered the left-hand traffic pattern, it demonstrated a swift and efficient turn, completing the maneuver in less than 1 nm in 39 seconds. The subsequent crosswind turn was even more rapid, taking just 16 seconds to complete. The pilot then executed a pattern downwind turn, maintaining a 45-degree angle to the runway, and subsequently flew the downwind leg, covering a distance of 2 nm in 56 seconds. The base leg turn was also executed at a 45-degree angle, followed by a base leg of 1 nm in 40 seconds. The final turn was completed in less than 1 nm in 35 seconds, setting the aircraft up for a final approach to runway 24 from the north-east.
The aircraft touched down on the runway at a speed of 64 kt, with a touchdown distance of 23 meters, which was considered good. The touchdown rate was an excellent -93 fpm, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.5 meters from the centreline. The total landing distance was 332 meters, accounting for 53% of the available runway length. Following touchdown, the aircraft rolled out, but its alignment was slightly off-centre by 9.2 meters. The total flight distance was 7 nm, and the aircraft used 3 kg of fuel, completing the flight in 5 minutes.
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