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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 83 kt with 3.3° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 125 kt target, at 123 kt on average.
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 752 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 637 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,340 fpm on average to 752 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 1,224 m runway.
Rolled from 81 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 8.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.1 m right, in 13 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 30 % 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.
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, centreline more than 1° off and wings more than 10° from level.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, about 240 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate. The last to settle was the wings.
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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 0.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 40 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. 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.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 0.8 nm, never more than 156 m off the centreline.
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 39 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −5 kt and +20 kt on the approach speed of 78 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
Perfect landing flare
11 kt across from the right, which takes about 10° of crab to hold the centreline at 65 kt. Touched down with the nose 13° into wind, wings level.
Wind 240° at 13 kt · 6 kt head · 11 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.
Side view — the last 1,224 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 38 ft, 109 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 11 ft, 39 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 179 m in, 126 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 1,224 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 650 fpm at the flare to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.8° 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 1,224 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 39 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 11 m left by the end of 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.
The 179 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.33 G arrival bounced 5 times.
The rest of the report
Departure from EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield's runway 18 was marked by a smooth departure roll, with the Extra 330 accelerating down the 402-meter takeoff distance, which represented 33% of the available runway length. Liftoff occurred at a speed of 84 knots, as the aircraft transitioned from the ground to the air. Local weather conditions at the time featured a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius and a moderate wind of 14 knots from 241 degrees, resulting in a 12-knot crosswind and a 6-knot headwind.
Following a brief enroute level cruise phase, which lasted 3 minutes and covered 6 nautical miles, the aircraft began its final approach to runway 18 from the north. The approach was characterized by a heading of 180.0 degrees at an altitude of 185 feet above ground level, with the aircraft maintaining a steady descent. Upon touchdown, the aircraft demonstrated good threshold speed, touching down at 73 knots, and a smooth touchdown rate of -129 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was excessively misaligned by 39.3 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was also significantly off-center, by 47.9 meters.
The total landing distance of 573 meters represented 47% of the available runway length, and the aircraft used 2 kilograms of fuel for the entire flight, which covered a total distance of 7 nautical miles and lasted 4 minutes. The landing was otherwise uneventful, with the aircraft demonstrating good touchdown speed and rate, despite the misaligned touchdown and rollout positions.
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