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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 623 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 75 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 75 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, well above the normal profile. The touchdown point was also long at 695 m against a 457 m target, a pattern often seen after high threshold crossings.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 102 kt, 5 kt below the 107 kt target, and lifted off at 116 kt 2.5 s later, the nose coming up at 2.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 128 kt, 30 kt under its 158 kt target.
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 858 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,316 m of runway left; gear up at 623 ft, 223 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,510 fpm on average to 858 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,998 m runway.
Rolled from 40 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.7 m left. Airborne 17 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.8 nm and high from 0.3 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 50 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. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then 27 m left of it from 0.8 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 25 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +8 kt and +12 kt on the approach speed of 100 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
The flare tracked the target profile exactly. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 695 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 98 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 28 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 1,708 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 75 ft, 25 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 28 ft. Touched down 695 m in, 390 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 1,708 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 640 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.1° 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 first 1,708 m of the 2,488 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.7 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.8 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.
Touched down 695 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Phenom 300E departed runway 31L at UGTB Tbilisi International Airport. Take-off was achieved after a 10-minute taxi covering 1 nm. The aircraft used 503 m of runway (17 % of runway) and rotated at 102 kt. Local weather was 27 °C with wind 10 kt from 310°, giving a 1 kt crosswind and a 10 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 12 seconds, averaging 3 455 fpm and reaching 129 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 2 462 ft asl to 28 009 ft asl in 6 minutes, covering 30 nm while remaining overhead UGTB.
Level flight was maintained at 28 000 ft asl for 8 minutes, covering 60 nm, beginning 3 mi south-west of K'asp'i.
Descent began at 27 496 ft asl and proceeded to 1 367 ft asl in 21 minutes, covering 83 nm, starting 3 mi east of Akhaltsikhe.
Final approach to runway 13 at UGSB Batumi International Airport started from 1 325 ft agl and descended to 4 ft agl in 128 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 7 925 ft agl while the aircraft was 186 kt. The final flap position 4 was selected at 2 422 ft agl at 114 kt.
Landing was made on runway 13, whose length is 2 488 m. The threshold height at 75 ft agl was well above target and the threshold speed was good at 108 kt. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 257 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 97 kt, with a smooth rate of -125 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 7.7 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1 605 m (65 % of runway) and the rollout was slightly misaligned by 7.9 m from the centreline.
Taxi from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The flight covered 181 nm in 46 minutes and used 269 kg of fuel. Local weather at Batumi was 19 °C.
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