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Departure
Apply small rudder corrections to track the centreline against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted 7.7 m off the centreline, and a heading variation of -5.2° usually follows into the initial climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings-level runway heading held through the climb
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to stop the drift as soon as it starts in the flare.
What happened: On the landing you drifted 7.6 m off the centreline, and that kind of lateral drift usually carries through to a touchdown point 8.3 m off centreline and into a rollout that is still skewed off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Heading indicator: track straight down the extended runway centreline through touchdown and rollout.
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 16 stages, 14 in the score
Events
Events
The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: no landing flap set, centreline 1.8° off, against a 1° limit, wings 33° of bank, against a 10° limit and speed 30 kt FAST on the reference speed of 78 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
wheel landing
Side view — the last 1,293 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,293 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 403 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Extra 330 taxied to runway 36 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield and commenced the departure roll, achieving lift-off after a takeoff run of 135 m, which represents 10 % of the available runway. Liftoff occurred at 55 kt while the ambient temperature was 19 °C, the wind was from 090° at 8 kt with a 2 kt cross-component and an 8 kt head-wind component.
The aircraft entered the left-hand traffic pattern for runway 36, covering less than 1 nm in 33 seconds to complete the pattern entry segment.
Continuing the left-hand pattern, the aircraft proceeded through the crosswind leg, again covering less than 1 nm, this time in 24 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft described a 72.6° angle to the runway while traversing a distance of 2 nm.
The downwind leg was flown for 2 nm and was completed in 44 seconds.
The base-leg turn was executed with a 58.9° angle to the runway and a distance of 2 nm.
The base leg itself measured 1 nm and was flown for 39 seconds.
The final turn to align with the runway was less than 1 nm in length and required 20 seconds to complete.
On final approach to runway 36 the aircraft descended from 459 ft AGL to 33 ft AGL in 38 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate criteria.
Touchdown occurred on runway 36, whose length is 1,293 m, with a threshold speed of 84 kt, slightly above the target. The aircraft landed 397 m from the threshold at 69 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 59 fpm, and the touchdown point was offset 8.3 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 828 m, representing 64 % of the runway, and the aircraft remained slightly misaligned by 8.3 m from the centreline during the roll.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, required a duration of 5 (units as given), and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The final approach to runway 36 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield descended from 459 ft AGL to 33 ft AGL in 38 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the speed was slightly above target at 84 kt, the touchdown distance was 397 m, the touchdown speed was 69 kt and the touchdown rate was excellent at minus 59 fpm, with a good threshold height noted.
Touchdown occurred with the wheel track misaligned by 8.3 m from the centreline and the total landing distance measured 828 m, representing 64 % of the 1,293 m runway.
During rollout the aircraft remained slightly misaligned by 8.3 m from the centreline.
Refine centreline tracking to reduce the 8.3 m offset observed at touchdown and rollout, and adjust the approach to achieve the target threshold speed rather than the slightly high 84 kt.
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