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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 82 kt with 4.6° 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 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 535 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,296 ft of runway left; then climbing at 980 fpm on average to 535 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 7,236 ft runway.
Rolled from 168 ft in, drifted 6 ft right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 26 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 550 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, 1,000 ft 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 11× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 3.8 nm, never more than 110 ft 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 0 kt tail · 0 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 80 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 31 ft, 19 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,223 ft in, 223 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 670 fpm at 28 ft to 50 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.0° 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 5,000 ft of the 5,869 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 16 ft left of the centreline and drifted to 46 ft right on the rollout.
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 1,223 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Mooney Ovation M20R started with a 10-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway, covering 2 nm. Departure was from runway 03 at KOGD Ogden-Hinckley, with a takeoff distance of 1,787 ft (25% of the runway). The liftoff speed was 82 knots. The local weather at the time indicated a temperature of 59 °F, with a 1 knot wind coming from 270 °, resulting in a 1 knot crosswind and 1 knot tailwind during takeoff.
The enroute climb began overhead KOGD Ogden-Hinckley, climbing from 5,012 ft to 7,973 ft, covering 14 nm in 6 minutes. The subsequent level cruise phase commenced 2 miles southwest of Farmington and lasted for 2 minutes, covering 7 nm. The descent phase then started overhead North Salt Lake, descending from 7,707 ft to 6,858 ft, covering 6 nm in 2 minutes. Another brief level cruise phase followed overhead Salt Lake City, lasting 2 minutes and covering 2 nm. The final descent began 2 miles west of Salt Lake City, descending from 7,052 ft to 6,207 ft, covering 6 nm in 3 minutes.
The landing took place on runway 16 at U42 South Valley Rgnl, with a runway length of 5,869 ft. The height at threshold was 31 ft above ground level, and the speed at threshold was 83 knots. The touchdown occurred 1,208 ft from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 73 knots and a Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) reading of -56 ft per minute. The weather during landing was 60 °F, with a 1 knot wind from 270 °, resulting in a 1 knot crosswind and no headwind.
The total landing distance was 2,448 ft, which was 42% of the total runway length. After landing, a 1-minute taxi from the runway to the parking area was completed, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 40 nm, with a total duration of 24 minutes and 21 lbs of fuel consumed.
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