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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 51 kt with 3.4° 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 427 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 635 m of runway left; then climbing at 210 fpm on average to 427 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 1,814 m runway.
Rolled from 977 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.5 m left. Airborne 56 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 330 ft below 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.
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 1,176 m right of the centreline at 2.3 nm, then inside the band from 1.4 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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 2.3 nm, where the final began, to 0.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +25 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
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 276° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 1 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 15 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 18 ft, 32 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 731 m in, 426 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 1,524 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 went from 250 fpm at 16 ft to 30 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.2° 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 1,814 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.9 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 731 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 05 at EGPE Inverness Airport, where the aircraft, a DV20, successfully took off after covering a takeoff distance of 70 meters, which accounted for 4% of the runway. The liftoff speed was recorded at 52 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind blowing at 3 knots from a direction of 275 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 knots and a tailwind of 2 knots.
As the aircraft began its enroute climb, it started 1 mile east of Ardersier, a location in the Highland region of Scotland. The climb was initiated from an altitude of 455 feet above sea level and continued to an altitude of 447 feet, resulting in an increase of 8 feet over a period of 1 minute. During this phase, the aircraft covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The final approach to runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport was conducted from the north-east, with the aircraft heading in a direction of 183.0 degrees at an altitude of 419 feet above ground level and a distance of 2 nautical miles from the runway. The landing was executed on runway 23, which had a length of 1,814 meters. The threshold height was satisfactory, but the threshold speed was found to be too high at 71 knots.
The touchdown point was located 286 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was recorded at 41 knots, which was considered good. The touchdown rate was also perfect at -28 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was spot on. At the time of landing, the local weather conditions remained the same, with a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind blowing at 3 knots from a direction of 275 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 2 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,005 meters, which accounted for 55% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect. The total flight distance was 5 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 5 minutes. Notably, the aircraft used 0 kilograms of fuel during the entire flight.
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