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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 114 kt with 2.2° 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 881 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 380 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,660 fpm on average to 881 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 1,567 m runway.
Rolled from 58 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.9 m left. Airborne 60 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 500 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.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: banked until 2.0 nm, gear up until 1.9 nm, right of the centreline until 1.1 nm, high until 0.2 nm, sinking too fast from 2.1 nm and fast from 2.1 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 2.7 nm, where the final began, to 0.2 nm (up to 1,040 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.
Joined 758 m right of the centreline at 2.7 nm, then inside the band from 1.1 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 55 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 33 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 2.7 nm, where the final began, to 2.1 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +41 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
Very poor landing flare
No wind recorded: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 70 ft, 20 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 646 m in, 341 m past 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 1,524 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 1,310 fpm at 69 ft to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° 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 1,524 m of the 1,567 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline.
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.
Touched down 646 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport (KGKT) took approximately 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its departure roll on runway 28, utilizing 62% of the 1,567-meter runway to achieve a takeoff distance of 973 meters. Liftoff speed was reached at 114 knots, as the aircraft lifted off into the local weather conditions, characterized by a temperature of 14°C and a negligible wind of 1 knot from 176°.
As the aircraft transitioned into the enroute phase, it began its initial climb overhead Sevierville, Tennessee, increasing its altitude from 1,981 feet above sea level to 4,061 feet above sea level in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. The climb rate was impressive, with an increase of 2,080 feet in a short period. Later, the aircraft initiated its enroute descent, reducing its altitude from 4,049 feet above sea level to 2,389 feet above sea level in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 28 at KGKT was conducted from the east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 276.0° at 2 nautical miles and 1,340 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 28 at KGKT was notable for its perfect runway touchdown alignment, despite the aircraft touching down 223 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed of 105 knots was slightly above the target, while the touchdown rate of -72 feet per minute was excellent. The local weather conditions remained consistent, with a temperature of 14°C and a negligible wind of 1 knot from 183°. The total flight distance was 14 nautical miles, covering a distance of 8 minutes, and the aircraft utilized 46 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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