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Fixing the bounce
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 68 kt with 2.6° 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 263 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 328 m of runway left; then climbing at 530 fpm on average to 263 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 1,198 m runway.
Rolled from 101 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 5.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.4 m right. Airborne 52 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set, sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and centreline more than 1° off.
The approach, gate by gate
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 44 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 353 m in, 48 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 1,524 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 300 fpm at 45 ft to 210 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° 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 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.1 m left of the centreline.
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 353 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.43 G arrival bounced 10 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took approximately 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cessna Skyhawk, then departed from runway 26L at LGMG Megara Air Base. The takeoff distance was 577 meters, which accounted for 48% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 68 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 270 degrees. There was no crosswind, but a headwind of 2 knots was present. As the aircraft took off, it began its enroute climb, starting overhead LGMG Megara Air Base. The climb took the aircraft from an altitude of 298 feet above sea level to 1,068 feet above sea level, an increase of 770 feet, in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 3 nautical miles.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 2 miles south of Nea Peramos. This phase lasted for 11 minutes and covered a distance of 16 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, this time starting overhead Kolonaki, and reached an altitude of 2,098 feet above sea level, an increase of 919 feet, in 3 minutes and covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it entered a descent phase, starting overhead Moskhaton, and descended from an altitude of 2,090 feet above sea level to 1,333 feet above sea level, a decrease of 758 feet, in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 1 mile southwest of Alimos and lasted for 42 minutes, covering a distance of 83 nautical miles.
The final approach to landing took place 15 miles southwest of Adamas, and the aircraft descended from an altitude of 1,767 feet above ground level to 1 foot above ground level. The descent took 10 seconds and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The touchdown speed was 50 knots, which was considered good, while the touchdown rate was fair at -211 feet per minute. The touchdown point was 134 meters beyond the touchdown zone.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were the same as those at the time of takeoff, with a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 270 degrees. There was a crosswind of 2 knots and a tailwind of 1 knot. The total flight distance was 113 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 62 minutes. The aircraft used 45 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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