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Work on the flare
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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 75 kt with 1.0° 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 979 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 390 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,320 fpm on average to 979 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 775 m runway.
Rolled from 41 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 7.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.6 m right. Airborne 24 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 0.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 310 ft over).
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.
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 384 m left of the centreline at 0.7 nm.
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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +10 kt and +17 kt on the approach speed of 65 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 10° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 329° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 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 63 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 1,387 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 127 ft, 77 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 833 m in, 528 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 1,387 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 1,060 fpm at 93 ft to 170 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 8.1° 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 full 1,387 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 3 m right by the end of the rollout.
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 833 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 01 at York Airport in South Carolina, United States. The aircraft, a Britten Norman Trislander BN2, took off with a takeoff distance of 167 meters, which accounted for 22% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 76 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of York Airport, it encountered local weather conditions of 8 degrees Celsius and a wind of 2 knots at 329 degrees. The crosswind was 1 knot, and the headwind was 2 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile north of the airport, where the aircraft climbed from 1,788 feet above sea level to 2,504 feet, an increase of 715 feet in 1 minute, covering 3 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise 3 miles southwest of Clover, South Carolina, and remained at that altitude for 15 minutes, covering 35 nautical miles. The enroute climb started again 6 miles north of Casar, North Carolina, where the aircraft climbed from 2,189 feet to 4,516 feet, an increase of 2,326 feet in 5 minutes, covering 11 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise 3 miles north of Morganton, North Carolina, and remained at that altitude for 2 minutes, covering 4 nautical miles. The enroute climb started once more 5 miles west of Lanni Field in Lenoir, North Carolina, where the aircraft climbed from 5,017 feet to 6,642 feet, an increase of 1,625 feet in 3 minutes, covering 8 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise 7 miles southeast of Newland, North Carolina, and remained at that altitude for 3 minutes, covering 8 nautical miles. The enroute descent started 1 mile south of Banner Elk, North Carolina, where the aircraft descended from 6,424 feet to 4,793 feet, a decrease of 1,631 feet in 2 minutes, covering 3 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise 1 mile west of NC06 Elk River Airport in Banner Elk, North Carolina, and remained at that altitude for 2 minutes, covering 2 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 30 at NC06 Elk River Airport was made from the east, heading 282.0 degrees at 1 nautical mile and 490 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 30 at NC06 Elk River Airport was made with a runway length of 1,387 meters. The threshold height was excessively over target, and the threshold speed was too high at 81 knots. The touchdown point was very long, using more than 50% of the available runway. The touchdown speed was a little fast at 61 knots, but the touchdown rate was good at -167 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.0 meters from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.8 meters from the centreline. The total landing distance was 1,013 meters, which accounted for 73% of the runway. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were the same as those encountered during the climb out of York Airport.
The total flight distance was 78 nautical miles, and the flight took 38 minutes to complete. The aircraft used 47 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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