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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 64 kt with 4.2° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 284 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 337 m of runway left; then climbing at 500 fpm on average to 284 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.
Plan view the roll down the 827 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 9.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 9.3 m left. Airborne 23 % 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 200 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 6× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 59 m off the centreline.
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 +11 kt and +37 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
4 kt across from the right, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 65 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, 4° of bank.
Wind 150° at 5 kt · 1 kt tail · 4 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 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.27 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 1,053 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 340 m in, close to 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 1,053 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 960 fpm at 30 ft to 170 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.6° 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 1,053 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.8 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.
The 340 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took approximately 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a PA28 Warrior II, then departed from runway 28 at KCDW Essex County Airport. The takeoff distance was 403 meters, which accounted for 49% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 64 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 35 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 5 knots from a direction of 150 degrees. The crosswind component was 5 knots, while the tailwind component was 2 knots. As the aircraft took off, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead Fairfield, New Jersey. The climb involved an increase in altitude from 466 feet above sea level to 2,652 feet above sea level, a total increase of 2,185 feet, over a distance of 6 nautical miles, and took approximately 4 minutes.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which began 2 miles south of Kinnelon, New Jersey. This phase lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 5 nautical miles. The enroute descent phase started 3 miles northwest of Kinnelon and involved a decrease in altitude from 2,960 feet above sea level to 2,206 feet above sea level, a total decrease of 754 feet, over a distance of 3 nautical miles, and took approximately 2 minutes.
The final approach to runway 06 at 4N1 Greenwood Lake was made from the southwest, with the aircraft heading at 49.0 degrees. The approach was initiated 4 nautical miles from the runway and at an altitude of 1,414 feet above ground level. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 33 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 5 knots from a direction of 150 degrees. The crosswind component was 5 knots, while the tailwind component was 1 knot.
The landing on runway 06 at 4N1 Greenwood Lake was successful, with a touchdown distance of 337 meters, which was 49% of the runway length. The touchdown speed was 65 knots, which was slightly fast, but the touchdown rate was good at -167 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 3.8 meters. The total landing distance was 517 meters, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
In conclusion, the flight was completed in 15 minutes, covering a total distance of 19 nautical miles, and used 5 kilograms of fuel.
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