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Fixing the bounce
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 64 kt with 1.3° 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 214 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 8,422 ft of runway left.
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 9,809 ft runway.
Rolled from 426 ft in, drifted 20 ft right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 9 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 2.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.5 nm (up to 2,720 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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.
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 2,900 ft right of the centreline at 2.8 nm, then 720 ft left of it from 1.4 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 44 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 230° at 4 kt · 0 kt head · 3 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 64 ft, 14 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,383 ft in, 383 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 600 fpm at 62 ft to 40 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 6.2° 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 first 5,000 ft of the 9,809 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 5 ft of it down 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 1,383 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.30 G arrival bounced 5 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began at RJFU Nagasaki with a 5-minute taxi from the parking to the runway, covering 1 nm. The departure roll took place on runway 32, with a takeoff distance of 586 ft, representing 6% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 65 kn. The local weather at the time indicated a temperature of 73 °F, with a 3 kn wind coming from 204° resulting in a 2 kn crosswind and a 1 kn tailwind.
During the enroute climb, the aircraft ascended from 254 ft asl to 2,906 ft asl, covering 2 nm in 5 minutes. The climb resulted in an increase of 2,653 ft in altitude. The descent phase began 1 mile south of Omura, with the aircraft descending from 3,071 ft asl to 1,653 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 1 nm and decreasing by 1,418 ft in altitude.
The landing occurred on the same runway 32 at RJFU Nagasaki, with a runway length of 9,809 ft. The aircraft was at a height of 64 ft agl at the threshold with a speed of 59 kn. The touchdown point was 1,375 ft from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 44 kn and a VSI of -93 ft/m. The local weather at the time showed a temperature of 75 °F, with a 4 kn wind from 229° resulting in a 4 kn crosswind and no headwind.
The total landing distance was 2,118 ft, representing 22% of the runway length. The taxi from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 6 nm, with a duration of 26 minutes and a fuel usage of 2 lbs.
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