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A tailwind component on base sweeps you through the extended centreline, the instinctive correction is to steepen the bank and, when that's not enough, to skid the turn with rudder. In a real aircraft this is the base-to-final stall-spin scenario that kills people. Don't steepen past 30 degrees, and if you've blown through the centreline, go around and reset.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 91 kt with 4.3° 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 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 572 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 249 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,230 fpm on average to 572 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 992 m runway.
Rolled from 78 m in, drifted 14 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 58 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and centreline more than 1° off.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high until 0.3 nm, left of the centreline from 0.9 nm and sinking too fast from 0.5 nm to the threshold.
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.
High from 4 nm to 2.8 nm (up to 1,170 ft over), then back on it to 1.5 nm, then high to 0.3 nm (up to 390 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, 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.
Outside the 1° band 3 times; furthest 597 m right at 4.0 nm.
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 44 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +38 kt on the approach speed of 88 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 181° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 79 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.29 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 446 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 19 ft, 31 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 159 m in, 146 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 446 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 780 fpm at 18 ft to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° 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 446 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 26 m left of the centreline and drifted to 31 m left on 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 159 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took approximately 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 05 at LIPV Venice-Lido Giovanni Nicelli Airfield, with a takeoff distance of 588 meters, which accounted for 59% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 91 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 6 knots from a direction of 270 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 4 knots and a tailwind of 5 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead Punta Sabbioni in Veneto, Italy. The climb took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 12 nautical miles, with the aircraft ascending from an altitude of 661 feet above sea level to 14,232 feet above sea level, a total increase of 13,571 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 1 mile north of Martellago in Veneto, Italy. This phase lasted for 13 minutes and covered a distance of 46 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 3 miles south of Ziano di Fiemme in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. The descent took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 22 nautical miles, with the aircraft descending from an altitude of 13,858 feet above sea level to 3,754 feet above sea level, a total decrease of 10,104 feet.
The final approach to runway 36 at LOCH Locher was made from the south, with the aircraft heading 356.0 degrees at an altitude of 2 nautical miles and 1,137 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 36, which had a length of 446 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was also satisfactory at 86 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 154 meters, and the touchdown speed was 75 knots, which was also satisfactory. The touchdown rate was perfect at 381 feet per minute.
However, the runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 25.6 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 180 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 0 knots and a tailwind of 1 knot. The total landing distance was 310 meters, which accounted for 70% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 27.3 meters from the centerline.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking area took approximately 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 84 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 33 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 72 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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