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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 98 kt with 7.4° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 230 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 62 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,180 fpm on average to 230 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 1,363 m runway.
Rolled from 591 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 7.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.8 m right, in 5 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 84 % of the way down the runway, past 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: no landing flap set, sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 11 kt above the approach speed of 93 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high all the way, fast all the way, banked until 1.0 nm, no landing flap until 0.9 nm, left of the centreline until 0.5 nm, sinking too fast from 1.2 nm to the threshold.
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 1° band in green.
High from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 900 ft over).
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 750 m left of the centreline at 1.5 nm, then inside the band from 0.5 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 23 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 14 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +66 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
The flare tracked the target profile closely. The flare was flown from 112 ft agl over the threshold, well above the target height, so the aircraft was above the profile for most of the landing. Touchdown was 391 m past the threshold. The flare cannot recover height that was never lost - fly the approach down to the aim point and the flare has somewhere to start from.
5 kt across from the right, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 84 kt. Touched down with the nose 4° into wind, wings level.
Wind 270° at 6 kt · 0 kt tail · 5 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 89 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.36 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 1,516 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 111 ft, 61 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 51 ft. Touched down 391 m in, 86 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 1,516 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 1,350 fpm at the flare to 420 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.9° 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 full 1,516 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.9 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.8 m left 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 391 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 415 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Aircraft OV-10 Bronco departed from Golden Airport (CYGE) in British Columbia, Canada, taking off from runway 14. The departure roll was smooth, with a takeoff distance of 1,131 meters, which accounted for 83% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 99 knots, with a local temperature of 16°C and a wind of 6 knots at 269°.
As the aircraft climbed out of Golden, it began a steady ascent, reaching an altitude of 6,123 feet above sea level in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 14 nautical miles. The enroute climb phase was punctuated by several level cruises, with the aircraft maintaining a steady altitude for short periods before resuming its ascent. Notably, the climb from 6,380 feet to 9,412 feet in 2 minutes, covering 5 nautical miles, was particularly steep. The aircraft also experienced several descent phases, including a 2-minute descent from 9,465 feet to 7,321 feet, covering 6 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 17 at Calgary/Springbank Airport (CYBW) was executed from the north, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 214.0° at 1 nautical mile and 1,011 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown distance of 366 meters and a touchdown speed of 84 knots. The touchdown rate was slightly hard at -418 feet per minute, but the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The total landing distance was 515 meters, accounting for 34% of the runway length. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, completing a total flight distance of 131 nautical miles in 34 minutes, with a fuel consumption of 194 kilograms.
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