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After the sink arrests at 36 ft, keep easing the yoke forward to let the aircraft continue settling rather than pausing above the runway.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 36 ft and the aircraft was held level there instead of being let down. Holding off high like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown, and here the touchdown rate was 376 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, continuing descent through the flare all the way to touchdown.
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 79 kt with 9.8° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 134 kt, 10 kt over its 124 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 789 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,348 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,480 fpm on average to 789 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,796 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1 m off the centreline, in 15 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 22 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 76 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 76 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way.
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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 0 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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 27 m off the centreline.
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.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −8 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
The flare strayed well off the target profile. The flare took the sink out 36 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft flew down from there. Touchdown was 234 m past the threshold. Let it come lower before checking the descent - holding off high uses runway and leaves the touchdown to chance.
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 66 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 164° at 22 kt · 21 kt head · 6 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 45 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 4 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 53 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 36 ft. Touched down 234 m in, 71 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 1,524 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 grew from 250 fpm at the flare to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 8.3° 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 first 1,524 m of the 3,062 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.5 m right of the centreline.
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 234 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 376 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 208B taxied to runway 12 at EKVG Vágar Airport and commenced the departure roll, achieving a takeoff distance of 378 m, which represented 21 % of the available runway. Liftoff occurred at 79 kt under local conditions of 15 °C, a wind from 164° at 22 kt, with a 16 kt cross-component and a 15 kt headwind component.
After liftoff the aircraft entered the climb phase overhead EKVG, ascending from 1,061 ft asl to 10,000 ft asl - an increase of 8,939 ft - in 10 minutes while covering 26 nm.
The first cruise segment began 18 mi west of Sorvagur and was maintained for 141 minutes, during which the airplane flew 408 nm at level altitude.
Descent commenced 5 mi west of Seltjarnarnes, with the aircraft descending from 9,957 ft asl to 3,776 ft asl - a loss of 6,181 ft - in 9 minutes and covering 23 nm.
A second cruise interval started 6 mi north of Gardur, lasting 9 minutes and spanning 7 nm before the final approach was initiated.
The final approach to runway 19 at BIKF Keflavik International Airport was flown from the north, on a heading of 180.0° at 4 nm and 1,278 ft agl, then continued with a descent from 1,330 ft agl to 57 ft agl over 297 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing was executed on runway 19, whose length is 3,062 m; the threshold speed was recorded slightly above target at 69 kt. Touchdown occurred 214 m down the runway with a speed of 66 kt, a firm touchdown rate of minus 376 fpm, and perfect runway alignment. Local weather remained 15 °C with wind 22 kt from 164°, a 6 kt crosswind and a 21 kt headwind.
The rollout phase confirmed the touchdown performance, noting the 214 m touchdown distance, the 66 kt speed, and the minus 376 fpm rate, all within expected parameters for the aircraft type.
Taxi-in from the runway to the parking area required 7 minutes and covered 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 475 nm, required 182 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 415 kg of fuel.
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