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Departure
Apply small rudder corrections to track the centreline against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted 5.7 m off the centreline, and a heading variation of -2.3° usually follows into the initial climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings-level runway heading held through the climb
Arrival
Make one smooth, continuous back-pressure through the flare to about 4.3° nose-up, holding it steady rather than pumping the elevator before touchdown.
What happened: The flare was pumped, with pitch reversing several times as the sink was most arrested at 5.5 ft; pumped flares like this usually carry through to a firm touchdown, which happened here at 183 fpm.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold a steady nose-up pitch of 4.3° through the flare, smoothly 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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 16 stages, 14 in the score
Events
Events
The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: no landing flap set and sink rate 1,129 fpm, more than the glideslope needed.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,435 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 219 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Extra 330 taxied to runway 10 at LFRC Cherbourg-Maupertus and commenced the departure roll, achieving lift-off after a takeoff distance of 213 m, which represents 9 % of the runway length. The aircraft reached a liftoff speed of 74 kt under a temperature of 23 °C, a headwind of 13 kt from 100°, and zero crosswind.
Entering the right-hand traffic pattern from runway 10, the aircraft covered less than 1 nm in 49 seconds to join the pattern.
The right-hand crosswind segment from runway 10 was completed in 18 seconds, again covering less than 1 nm.
During the downwind turn, the aircraft described a 65.8° angle to the runway and traversed 1 nm.
The downwind leg extended 3 nm and was flown in 63 seconds.
The base-leg turn was executed with a 46.4° angle to the runway and spanned 2 nm.
The base leg itself was less than 1 nm and lasted 23 seconds.
The final turn, also less than 1 nm, required 23 seconds to align with the runway.
On final approach to runway 10 from the west, the aircraft was established on a heading of 101.0° at 1 nm and 231 ft AGL, maintaining the same 13 kt headwind and 0 kt crosswind as earlier.
Landing was performed on runway 10, whose length is 2 435 m. The threshold speed was 73 kt, touchdown occurred 218 m down the runway at 61 kt, and the descent rate at touchdown was minus 140 fpm. Runway alignment on touchdown was very good.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 487 m, representing 20 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout remained very good.
In total, the flight covered 7 nm, required 4 (units as given) and consumed 3 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 10 at LFRC Cherbourg-Maupertus Airport was flown from the west on a heading of 101.0° at 1 nm and 231 ft agl, with ambient temperature 23 °C and a wind of 13 kt from 100° providing a 13 kt headwind and zero crosswind.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good height and the threshold speed was good at 73 kt.
Touchdown occurred 218 m down the runway at a speed of 61 kt, with a smooth descent rate of minus 140 fpm and runway-touchdown alignment described as very good.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 487 m, representing 20 % of the 2 435 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
With a score of 96.5 % the landing was excellent; a slight forward shift of the touchdown point would further reduce rollout distance while preserving safety, and maintaining the smooth descent rate will keep the touchdown quality high.
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