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Add power on final to keep the approach speed at 65 kt rather than letting it decay before the threshold.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 56 kt, 9 kt below the target, and touchdown followed with a firm, high sink rate arrival. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries through to a firmer touchdown as the flare runs out of energy.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 65 kt at the threshold.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 52 kt, and lifted off at 56 kt 1.5 s later, the nose coming up at 4.9° a second.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 155 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 674 m of runway left; then climbing at 630 fpm on average to 155 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 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 35 m in, never more than 0.5 m off the centreline. Airborne 28 % 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 threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Right-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, 0.7 nm out at 74 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.
Low: turned crosswind at 306 ft, below the 500 ft minimum.
Each lap slightly wider and higher than the last, because you're unconsciously using the previous lap as your reference instead of the runway and the numbers. Invisible lap to lap, unmistakable across ten. This is the failure that only measurement catches, because your memory of lap three is gone by lap eight.
Read more in Pattern WorkOff heading: 7° from the leg's heading on average.
Spacing cues are relative to your eyepoint, so two simmers with different FOV settings following the same wingtip cue fly patterns half a mile different in width, and a wide FOV compresses depth so the runway on base looks further away than it is, biasing you towards a late turn. Pick a camera position and FOV, save it, and never change it, because every judgement you calibrate is calibrated to that picture.
Read more in Pattern WorkGood: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm (up to 430 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 319 m right of the centreline at 1.5 nm, then inside the band from 1.2 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.
The rest of the report
The Robin DR400 taxied from the parking area to runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield for 8 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 12. The aircraft used 317 m of runway, which is 29 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 52 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
The initial climb to 400 ft agl lasted 13 seconds, averaging 718 fpm and reaching 57 kt at the top of the climb.
A right-hand circuit was flown. The downwind leg was 4 nm long and was completed in 182 seconds at 970 ft agl. The base leg was less than 1 nm and lasted 8 seconds.
Final approach to runway 12 began from 950 ft agl and descended to 43 ft agl in 71 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway showed gear down, landing flap, centreline, speed and wings level were met; sink rate and glideslope were not met.
Landing was on runway 12, whose length is 1,101 m and has a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly below target at 56 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 155 m down the runway at 46 kt with a descent rate of minus 154 fpm; alignment was perfect and no bounce occurred.
Local weather at landing was temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 269°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
The total flight covered 9 nm in 9 minutes and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
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