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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
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 62 kt with 2.8° 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 608 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 374 m of runway left; then climbing at 880 fpm on average to 608 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 1,248 m runway.
Rolled from 463 m in, drifted 6.8 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 56 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 50 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 052° at 4 kt · 2 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.
From 48 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 84 ft, 34 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 632 m in, 327 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 1,180 fpm at 119 ft to 70 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 9.2° 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 1,524 m of the 2,138 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.4 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 5.9 m right at the widest.
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 632 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 07 at F62 Hayfork, with a takeoff distance of 256 meters, which accounted for 21% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 62 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 8 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 5 knots at 273 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 0 knots and a tailwind of 5 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile east of Hayfork, and climbed from 2,947 feet above sea level to 3,272 feet, an increase of 325 feet, in less than 1 minute and covering less than 1 nautical mile.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted 2 minutes and covered 3 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, this time from 3,848 feet to 5,464 feet, an increase of 1,615 feet, in 4 minutes and covering 6 nautical miles. The climb phase was followed by another level cruise, which started 8 miles south of Douglas City and lasted 6 minutes, covering 10 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its descent, starting 12 miles northwest of 42BH Bluffers Hill. The descent was from 5,961 feet to 1,389 feet, a decrease of 4,572 feet, in 11 minutes and covering 16 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 1 mile west of KREN Redding Airport and lasted 6 minutes, covering 5 nautical miles.
The flight concluded with a landing on runway 34 at KRDD Redding Municipal Airport, which had a runway length of 2,138 meters. The threshold height at 85 feet above ground level was significantly above the target, and the threshold speed was too high at 76 knots. The touchdown point was 80 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 50 knots, which was good, and a touchdown rate of -75 feet per minute, which was excellent.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.7 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned by 8.2 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 14 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 4 knots at 51 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 3 knots and a headwind of 2 knots.
The total landing distance was 751 meters, which accounted for 35% of the runway. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 42 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 33 minutes, with no fuel consumption reported.
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