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Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 233 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 233 fpm next time
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 13 stages, 11 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 54 kt, 5 kt above the 49 kt target, and lifted off at 59 kt 1.3 s later, the nose coming up at 3.1° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 78 kt target, at 83 kt on average.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 197 m.
Reached 11 m with 858 m of runway left; then climbing at 4.6 m/s on average to 197 m.
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 1,548 m runway.
Rolled from 289 m in, drifted 2.4 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 32 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, 3° of bank.
Wind 319° at 4 kt · 3 kt head · 1 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 53 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 11 m, 4 m below the 15 m target; began the flare at 8 m. Touched down 191 m in, 113 m short of 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: 24 m top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 15 m 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 3.1 m/s at the flare to 1.2 m/s at touchdown. The nose came up 4.2° 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 −3 is 3 m a second 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 1,548 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, 4.7 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 191 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.2 m/s arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxi from the parking area to runway 30 at ENKJ Lillestrøm Airfield, Kjeller. The taxi took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 30. The take-off roll was 511 m, which is 33 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 54 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 15 °C, wind 4 kt from 331°, giving a 2 kt crosswind component and a 3 kt headwind component.
The initial climb to 121.9 m agl lasted 36 seconds, with an average climb rate of 4.5 m/s and a speed increase to 84 kt at the top of the climb.
The aircraft entered a left-hand circuit for runway 30. The circuit lasted 8 minutes. The downwind leg was 2 nm and was flown in 65 seconds at 347.5 m agl. The base leg was less than 1 nm and was completed in 29 seconds.
During the final approach the aircraft met the stabilisation checks. The threshold speed was 56 kt, which was judged good. The aircraft was configured for landing and on final the runway was aligned. The flare was described as a perfect landing flare. Touchdown occurred at a speed of 48 kt, also judged good, and the touchdown rate was fair at minus 1.2 m/s. The touchdown point was 191 m down the runway, considered good, and was 3.8 m off centreline to the side. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 326 m, representing 21 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area. The taxi back took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The overall flight covered 12 nm, lasted 11 minutes and used 3 kg of fuel.
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