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Arrival
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 3.9° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
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.
Read more in Improve Your Take-OffsStart to finish · 14 stages, 13 in the score
Events
Events
Events
2 landings
The flight is kept as it was recorded: it ends when the engine is shut down, so a landing with the rotors turning is a stop along the way, not a new flight.
| # | Where | Into flight | Touchdown | Ground speed | Sideways | On the ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 miles west of Kusterdingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany) | 3:34 | 4 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 0:30 |
| 2 | 3 miles north west of Kusterdingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany) | 7:36 | 339 ft/min | 3.8 kt | 3.7 kt | 0:21 |
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 68 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 67 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 863 m of runway left.
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 1,817 m runway.
Rolled from 584 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.9 m left. Airborne 37 % 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.
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, 0.8 nm out at 85 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 239 ft, before the end of the runway, 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 WorkLow on downwind: 793 ft against 1,000 ft, 207 ft below.
Descending on downwind. Power comes back abeam, the aircraft isn't re-trimmed, your eyes are outside judging the turn point, and 100 ft leaks away before base. Shows up as a low gate 2, and everything after it is a scramble.
Read more in Pattern WorkEarly: turned base with the threshold 84° behind, against 45°.
Base. Turn 90 degrees towards the runway when the threshold sits about 45 degrees behind your shoulder. Descend at around 80 kt with second-stage flap. The geometry of that 45-degree cue isn't arbitrary. It produces a base leg long enough to lose roughly 500 ft at about 500 fpm before the final turn. Once you know that's what the cue is for, you can derive your own turn point for any aircraft and any speed.
Read more in Pattern WorkGood: full marks on the turn.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.3 points, for the nose going up and down 2 times.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, 4° of bank.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt tail · 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 54 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 23 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 17 ft. Touched down 436 m in, 131 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 370 fpm at the flare to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.0° 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 1,817 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.8 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.5 m right at the widest.
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.
The 436 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed Inverness Airport (EGPE) from runway 05, executing a departure roll of 699 m which represented 38 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 68 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a tail-wind component of 2 kt.
During the approach the right-hand pattern was entered from runway 05, covering less than 1 nm in 14 seconds. The subsequent right-hand crosswind segment also spanned less than 1 nm, completed in 5 seconds. The downwind turn was 1 nm with an angle to the runway of 114.4°, followed by a downwind leg of less than 1 nm in 25 seconds. The base turn covered 1 nm at an angle of 84.4°, and the base leg was less than 1 nm in 14 seconds. The final turn was less than 1 nm in 9 seconds, after which the final approach descended from 81 ft agl to 39 ft agl in 4 seconds and met the stabilisation gates.
Landing was performed on runway 05, whose length is 1,817 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 65 kt. Touchdown occurred 420 m down the runway at a speed of 54 kt, with a vertical rate of minus 93 fpm and perfect alignment. The total landing distance measured 885 m, representing 49 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was judged very good.
The rollout phase continued the excellent alignment, with the aircraft remaining centered on the runway centreline until deceleration was complete.
In total the flight covered 3 nm, taking 3, and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
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