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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 28°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Hold a touch more back pressure through the last of the flare to arrest the sink before touchdown.
What happened: Touchdown was firm at 93 fpm of sink.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a gentle rate at touchdown within the normal flare band
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 86 kt, 7 kt before the 93 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 361 m in, drifted 5.5 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 58 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to 114 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 190 m of runway left; then climbing at 610 fpm on average to 114 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare.
Over the threshold
Excellent landing flare
It lost 4.0 points, for the nose going up and down 7 times.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,101 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 39 ft, 183 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 6 ft, 44 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 204 m in, 101 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 1,101 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 1,360 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 7.8° on the way down. Into the flare at 99 kt, 20 kt over the 79 kt approach speed, and 79 kt at touchdown.
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 1,101 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.6 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.9 m left at the widest. Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 204 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 81 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.24 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.
The rest of the report
The Lancair Legacy taxied to runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield and commenced the take-off roll. The aircraft used 652 m of runway, which is 59 % of the available length, and rotated at 85 kt. Local weather at departure was 11 °C with wind 1 kt from 355°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and no head-wind.
Initial climb was to 400 ft agl and took 10 seconds, averaging 671 fpm and reaching 104 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then leveled off at 2 000 ft asl, cruising for about one minute and covering 2 nm while passing overhead Cranves-Sales.
During the approach the runway environment was reported as having a good threshold height. The threshold speed was well above target at 91 kt. The aircraft stabilized on final and entered the flare, which was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred at 79 kt, noted as a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 94 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was very good and no bounce occurred. The touchdown distance was 204 m, considered good, and the total landing distance was 501 m, representing 46 % of the 1 101 m runway. Runway rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 3 nm, lasted 5 minutes and used 1 kg of fuel.
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