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Departure
Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 64 kt, holding a steady rotation rate rather than snatching the controls.
What happened: On the takeoff roll the aircraft bounced before becoming fully airborne.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: a smooth, continuous pitch-up through liftoff with no secondary bounce.
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Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 57 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 57 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, well above the normal profile. The touchdown point was also long at 671 m against a 457 m target, a pattern often seen after high threshold crossings.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
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 71 kt with 1.0° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 82 kt, 7 kt under its 89 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 793 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 338 m of runway left; then climbing at 790 fpm on average to 793 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 998 m runway.
Rolled from 38 m in, drifted 2.6 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 41 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.2 nm, about 150 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 220 ft above the slope.
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 207 m left of the centreline at 1.4 nm, then inside it from 1.1 to 0.5 nm, then drifted 17 m left between 0.5 and 0.2 nm, then inside the band from 0.2 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −0 kt and +15 kt on the approach speed of 69 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
The flare held the target profile well. Pitch was 1.0° at touchdown, at or below this aircraft's ground attitude, so the nosewheel met the runway with the main wheels or before them. Touchdown was 671 m past the threshold. Keep raising the nose through the flare so the main wheels touch first.
No wind recorded: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, 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 57 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 20 ft. Touched down 671 m in, 366 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 290 fpm at the flare to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.1° 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 2,836 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.3 m left of 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 671 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.19 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 taxied from the parking area to runway 19 at 1L8 General Dick Stout Field for 10 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Takeoff was made on runway 19. The aircraft used 437 m of runway, which was 44 % of the available length. Liftoff occurred at 71 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 20 °C, wind 7 kt from 164°, giving a crosswind component of 4 kt and a headwind component of 6 kt.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 55 seconds, averaging 689 fpm and reaching 85 kt at the top of the climb. The subsequent climb from 4,244 ft asl to 4,798 ft asl was completed in 1 minute while covering 2 nm, beginning 1 mile north of UT47 Grassy Meadows/Sky Ranch Landowners Assn Airport Hurricane.
The aircraft then level-flew at 4,800 ft asl for 3 minutes, covering 6 nm, starting 1 mile west of the same airport.
During final approach to runway 19 at KSGU St George Regional Airport, descent from 753 ft agl to 150 ft agl was completed in 62 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. The configuration on final was flap position 2 at 823 ft agl with an airspeed of 89 kt.
Landing was made on runway 19, whose length is 2,836 m. The threshold height at 57 ft agl was slightly above target and the threshold speed of 74 kt was slightly above target. The flare was described as perfect, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 286 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 65 kt, which was good, and the vertical speed was smooth at minus 106 fpm. Runway-touchdown alignment was very good. One bounce occurred on touchdown.
Local weather at landing was temperature 23 °C, wind 6 kt from 189°, giving a crosswind component of 1 kt and a headwind component of 6 kt.
The total flight covered 11 nm, lasted 11 minutes and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
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