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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 59 kt with 1.0° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 92 kt, 12 kt over its 80 kt target.
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 535 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,989 ft of runway left; gear up at 12 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 600 fpm on average to 535 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,272 ft runway.
Rolled from 175 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 18 ft at the widest, and lifted off 18 ft right, in 5 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 16 % 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: gear still up, glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and centreline more than 1° off.
The approach, gate by gate
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare strayed well off the target profile. The flare took all the sink out 29 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 222 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 2,712 ft past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
6 kt across from the right, which takes about 8° of crab to hold the centreline at 44 kt. Touched down with the nose 11° into wind, wings level.
Wind 210° at 13 kt · 11 kt head · 6 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 36 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 4 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 27 ft, 3,278 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target; ballooned 3 ft from 26 ft. Touched down 2,712 ft in, 1,712 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 110 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at 41 ft, then back up to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.2° 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 5,000 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 487 ft left of the centreline, and steered back to 25 ft 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.
Touched down 2,712 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.16 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
Departure from The 2A Ranch Airport, Ormond Beach, Florida, began with a smooth departure roll on runway 28. The Icon A5 aircraft accelerated rapidly, reaching liftoff speed of 60 kt in a short distance of 567 ft, which accounted for only 17% of the available runway. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 89 °F and a gentle headwind of 5 kt, contributed to a favorable takeoff environment.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it transitioned into a steady enroute climb, reaching an altitude of 1,051 ft asl in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 2 nm. The climb rate was impressive, with a gain of 462 ft in a short period. Following the initial climb, the aircraft leveled off and entered a 5-minute cruise phase, covering a distance of 8 nm. The subsequent descent from 1,262 ft asl to 465 ft asl, a decrease of 797 ft in 2 minutes, was executed smoothly, and the aircraft leveled off again for a brief period before commencing the final approach to landing on the Halifax River.
The final approach was characterized by a steady descent from 47 ft agl to 0 ft agl, with a touchdown speed of 44 kt and an excellent touchdown rate of -50 fpm. The touchdown point was located at the far end of the available runway, indicating a long rollout. Following touchdown, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering a short distance of less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 16 nm, and the aircraft used 4 lbs of fuel during the 12-minute flight.
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