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Departure
Apply small rudder corrections to track the centreline against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted 122 m off the centreline, and a heading variation of -173° usually follows into the initial climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings-level runway heading held through the climb
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 65 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 74 kt, 9 kt above the 65 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 65 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 41 kt, 19 kt below the 60 kt target, and lifted off at 51 kt 0.7 s later, the nose coming up at 1.1° a second.
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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 50 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,271 m of runway left.
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 1,996 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 107 m at the widest, and lifted off 108 m left. Airborne 0 % 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 threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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: gear still up and centreline more than 1° off.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3.2°.
The approach, gate by gate
The rest of the report
Departing from Istanbul's SB08, the Icon A5 aircraft began its takeoff roll on runway 08, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 51 kt. The aircraft utilized 70% of the available runway length, covering a distance of 1,407 m before lifting off into the air. Local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15 °C, with a gentle tailwind of 2 kt blowing from the west.
As the aircraft climbed away from Istanbul, it transitioned into an enroute climb, ascending from an initial altitude of 52 ft above sea level to 1,786 ft. This climb phase was notable for its rapid ascent, with the aircraft increasing its altitude by 1,734 ft in just 2 minutes, while covering a distance of 4 nm. The climb was executed smoothly, with the aircraft maintaining a steady heading and altitude.
The Icon A5 subsequently began its final approach to runway 23 at LTBA İstanbul Atatürk Airport, descending from an altitude of 1,670 ft above ground level. The aircraft approached from the north-east, aligning itself with the runway at a heading of 221.0 °. Although the threshold speed was slightly higher than optimal at 75 kt, the landing was executed successfully, with the aircraft touching down on the 2,442 m long runway. The total flight distance was 8 nm, with the aircraft consuming 2 kg of fuel during the 8-minute flight.
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