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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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 77 kt with 4.6° 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 667 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,886 ft of runway left; then climbing at 850 fpm on average to 667 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 7,335 ft runway.
Rolled from 397 ft in, never more than 5 ft off the centreline. Airborne 25 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 2.1 nm, then high to 1.5 nm (up to 500 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, 1,000 ft 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.
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 2,770 ft right of the centreline, then inside the band from 1.8 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° 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 68 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 26 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 838 ft in, 162 ft short of the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 490 fpm at 26 ft to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.9° 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 first 5,000 ft of the 6,205 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 11 ft left 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 838 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took 6 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a DA-50, then departed from runway 19R at the San Francisco International Airport (KSFO). The takeoff distance was 1,501 feet, which is 20% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 77 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 270 degrees. The crosswind component was 1 knot, while the headwind component was 0 knots. The enroute climb started overhead Millbrae, California, and the aircraft climbed from an altitude of 697 feet above sea level to 1,675 feet above sea level, an increase of 979 feet, in 3 minutes and covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began 1 mile east of Brisbane, California, and lasted for 10 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 10R at the San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport (KOAK) was made from the west, heading 104.0 degrees at an altitude of 1,403 feet above ground level and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway.
The landing on runway 10R was successful, with a threshold speed that was slightly below the target speed of 75 knots at 75 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 832 feet, and the touchdown speed was 68 knots, which was also good. The touchdown rate was -192 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions remained the same, with a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 270 degrees.
The total landing distance was 2,504 feet, which is 40% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also very good. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, which took 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 16 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 22 minutes. The aircraft used 25 pounds of fuel during the flight.
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