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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 1.9°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Continue arresting the sink throughout the flare so it does not return before the mains touch.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink to 11 ft, then 233 fpm returned before the mains touched, giving a touchdown rate of 231 fpm. Sink that returns after an early arrest usually produces a firmer touchdown than the flare alone would suggest.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 231 fpm next time
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 51 kt, 7 kt below the 58 kt target, and lifted off at 58 kt 1.3 s later, the nose coming up at 3.3° a second.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 229 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 787 m of runway left; then climbing at 370 fpm on average to 229 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 1,293 m runway.
Rolled from 52 m in, drifted 2.3 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 6 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 17 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.7 points, for taking the sink out 11 ft agl above the runway.
8 kt across from the right, which takes about 9° of crab to hold the centreline at 49 kt. Touched down with 6° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 067° at 9 kt · 3 kt head · 8 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 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 1,293 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 20 ft, 32 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 206 m in, 99 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 1,293 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 590 fpm at the flare to 230 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.0° 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 full 1,293 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.8 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2.7 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 206 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 231 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The CubCrafters CC19 XCub taxied to runway 36 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield and departed on a roll of 230 m, which was 18 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 51 kt. Local weather at departure was 12 °C with wind 7 kt from 067°, giving a 6 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 36 seconds, averaging 284 fpm and reaching 103 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then leveled at 800 ft asl for the cruise phase, remaining in level flight for about 3 minutes and covering 5 nm while passing overhead Reichelsheim.
During the approach the aircraft configured for runway 36. Stabilisation checks were met: threshold speed was 58 kt, which was judged good. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred at 49 kt, also judged good, with a descent rate of minus 232 fpm, described as fair. The touchdown point was 206 m down the runway, a good distance, and the aircraft was slightly misaligned by 7.3 m from the centreline. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 422 m, representing 33 % of the 1,293 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 11 °C with wind 9 kt from 065°, giving an 8 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component. The flight covered a total of 6 nm in 4 minutes and used 1 kg of fuel.
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