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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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The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 105 kt with 6.4° 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 934 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,427 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,280 fpm on average to 934 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 2,280 m runway.
Rolled from 182 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 8.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.2 m left. 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.
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: centreline more than 1° off.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.3 to 1.0 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 1.0 nm and sinking too fast from 0.4 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 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then high to 0.3 nm (up to 160 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 654 m left of the centreline, then inside it from 1.3 to 1.0 nm, then 119 m right of it from 1.0 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 58 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 35 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −0 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 116 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
Great landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 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 102 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 s, an average deceleration of 0.31 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 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 337 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 1,524 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 750 fpm at 18 ft to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° 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 −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 1,524 m of the 2,280 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.4 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.5 m right by the end of 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 337 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.22 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a quick taxi from the parking area to the runway, taking less than a minute and covering a distance of less than a nautical mile. The aircraft, a PC-21, then departed from runway 23L at LELC San Javier Airport, with a takeoff distance of 638 meters, which was 28% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 106 knots, and the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 17°C and a wind speed of 1 knot from 270°.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead the airport and took it to an altitude of 8,156 feet above sea level. This climb phase covered a distance of 10 nautical miles and took 3 minutes, with an increase in altitude of 7,132 feet. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 13 minutes and covered a distance of 17 nautical miles, 2 miles east of Cartagena.
The enroute descent phase began 13 miles south east of the airport, with the aircraft descending from 8,305 feet to 4,060 feet above sea level, a decrease of 4,245 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 14 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, this time lasting 5 minutes and covering a distance of 3 nautical miles, 7 miles south east of Torrevieja.
The final descent phase began 6 miles south east of Torrevieja, with the aircraft descending from 4,007 feet to 1,450 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,556 feet in 4 minutes, covering a distance of 11 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 23L at LELC San Javier Airport, approaching from the north east and heading 233.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,426 feet above ground level.
However, the pilot decided to go-around, climbing to 398 feet above ground level. The aircraft then landed on runway 23L, with a touchdown distance of 338 meters, which was good, but the touchdown speed of 101 knots was a little fast. The touchdown rate was smooth at -145 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 7.8 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions remained the same, with a temperature of 15°C and a wind speed of 1 knot from 270°.
The total landing distance was 746 meters, which was 33% of the runway length, and the runway rollout alignment was very good. The total flight distance was 66 nautical miles, taking 47 minutes, and the aircraft used 150 kilograms of fuel.
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