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Maintain a smooth pitch
See Departure Roll
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 73 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 109 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 193 m of runway left; then climbing at 520 fpm on average to 109 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 732 m runway.
Rolled from 262 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.8 m left, in 9 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 46 % 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 1.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 80 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 214 m left of the centreline at 1.0 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 +1 kt and +14 kt on the approach speed of 68 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
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 56 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 204° at 9 kt · 8 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 73 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 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 1,230 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 35 ft, 15 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 303 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 1,230 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 350 fpm at 35 ft to 90 fpm at 9 ft, then back up to 230 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.9° 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 full 1,230 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.1 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 10 m 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 303 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.28 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 27 at EDYK Siegen-Eisernhardt Airfield, a small airfield in Germany. The aircraft, a Piper PA-24-250 Comanche, accelerated down the runway and lifted off at a speed of 73 kt, covering a distance of 80 m, which was just 11% of the runway's length. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 21 °C and a gentle wind blowing at 9 kt from a direction of 202 °.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airfield, it began to ascend to a higher altitude, reaching a maximum height of 2,948 ft asl. This climb phase was completed in just 2 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 5 nm and gained an altitude of 1,539 ft. The climb phase started overhead the airfield, and the aircraft then leveled off and entered a cruise phase, flying at a steady altitude and speed for a period of 10 minutes. During this time, the aircraft covered a distance of 26 nm, flying 1 mile north of the town of Burbach.
As the aircraft continued on its journey, it began to descend from its cruising altitude, starting 1 mile northwest of the town of Langgons. The descent phase was completed in just 3 minutes, during which the aircraft lost an altitude of 1,288 ft and covered a distance of 7 nm. The aircraft then leveled off again, flying at a steady altitude and speed for a short period of 2 minutes, before beginning another descent phase. This time, the descent started overhead the town of Wolfersheim, and the aircraft lost an altitude of 1,564 ft in just 4 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nm.
The final approach to the destination airfield, EDFB Reichelsheim, was made from the south, with the aircraft flying at a heading of 358.0 ° and an altitude of 240 ft agl. The landing was made on runway 36, which was 1,230 m long. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 22 °C and a gentle wind blowing at 9 kt from a direction of 204 °.
The landing was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 56 kt and a distance of 301 m from the threshold. However, the touchdown rate was slightly higher than ideal, at -226 fpm. The runway touchdown position was also slightly misaligned from the centreline, by 9.1 m. The total landing distance was 739 m, which was 60% of the runway's length. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned, by 10.3 m from the centreline.
Overall, the flight was completed in 21 minutes, covering a total distance of 46 nm. The aircraft used a total of -124 kg of fuel during the flight.
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