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Departure
Hold the nose down a touch longer and let speed build to 90 kt before liftoff.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 70 kt, 20 kt below the 90 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 90 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
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
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 70 kt with 4.9° 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 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 974 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,297 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,760 fpm on average to 974 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 1,674 m runway.
Rolled from 47 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.2 m right. Airborne 14 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.8 nm, about 760 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 220 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 1,840 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 1.8 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.3 nm (up to +72 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
Very poor landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 0 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 61 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 29 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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 1,610 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 49 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 832 m in, 527 m past 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 1,610 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 550 fpm at 46 ft to 50 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.3° 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 1,610 m of the 2,735 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.7 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 2 m of it down 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.
Touched down 832 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Velocity XL, then departed from runway 04 at KTZR Bolton Field, with a takeoff distance of 255 meters, which was 15% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 70 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it encountered local weather conditions of a temperature of 15°C and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270°. The crosswind and tailwind components were both 1 knot. The enroute climb started overhead KTZR Bolton Field, where the aircraft climbed from 1,973 feet above sea level to 4,097 feet above sea level, an increase of 2,124 feet in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began 2 miles north of KTZR Bolton Field and lasted for 5 minutes, covering a distance of 16 nautical miles. The enroute descent started 2 miles west of London, Ohio, and the aircraft descended from 4,408 feet above sea level to 1,748 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,661 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 14 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 24 at KSGH Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport was made from the north-east, with a heading of 235.0° at 2 nautical miles and 687 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown point 392 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed was 61 knots, which was good, and the touchdown rate was perfect at -11 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were the same as during takeoff, with a temperature of 15°C and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270°. The crosswind and headwind components were both 1 knot. The total landing distance was 1,505 meters, which was 55% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was perfect. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile.
In total, the flight distance was 35 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 17 minutes. The aircraft used 7 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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