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Be on speed by the gate
See Arrival Approach
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 18 stages, 13 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 102 kt with 2.2° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 96 kt, 21 kt under its 117 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 806 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft 51 m past the runway end; gear up at 51 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,040 fpm on average to 806 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,233 m runway.
Rolled from 82 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.7 m left. Airborne 88 % of the way down the runway, past 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.
At the 300 ft gate: wings more than 10° from level and speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 85 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, banked until 0.4 nm, right of the centreline 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 110 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 671 m left of the centreline at 1.5 nm, then 22 m right of it from 0.5 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +46 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 strayed well off the target profile. Crossing the threshold 39 kt above target, the flare took all the sink out 26 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft then dropped the rest of the way, 366 fpm of sink coming back. Touchdown was 632 m past the threshold. Hold the attitude and let it settle rather than pushing - a balloon is almost always excess speed, so the fix is on the approach, not in the flare.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 110 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 009° at 4 kt · 2 kt tail · 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 112 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.32 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 1,233 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 49 ft, 12 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 44 ft, close to 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 1,233 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 1,140 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.3° 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 1,233 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.1 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6.4 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 1.15 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
Departure from Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport (CYTZ) commenced with a taxiing phase that lasted 40 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its departure roll on runway 26, utilizing 90% of the available runway length of 1,216 meters to achieve a takeoff distance of 1,098 meters. Liftoff speed was reached at 102 knots, as the aircraft lifted off into the local weather conditions, characterized by a temperature of 16°C and a gentle wind of 4 knots at 8°.
Following a brief climb phase, the aircraft transitioned into a level cruise, maintaining an altitude of 1,830 feet above sea level for 2 minutes while covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. The enroute climb phase itself had started 1 mile south of Little Portugal, Ontario, and had seen the aircraft ascend 739 feet in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 26 was initiated from the east, with the aircraft descending from an altitude of 455 feet above ground level. However, a go-around was subsequently executed at 496 feet above ground level, necessitating a re-initiation of the approach.
The aircraft eventually landed on runway 26, with a touchdown point that utilized more than 50% of the available runway. The touchdown speed of 110 knots was excessively fast, while the touchdown rate of -220 feet per minute was fair. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4 meters from the centreline. Following a successful landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile in 6 minutes. The total flight distance was 18 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 22 minutes and a fuel consumption of 47 kilograms.
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