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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 11 m off the centreline, and a heading variation of 1.5° usually follows into the initial climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings-level runway heading held through the climb
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 11 stages, 9 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated late
The nose came up at 78 kt, 10 kt after the 68 kt rotate speed.
The pull started after the rotate speed had gone by. Bring the airspeed into the scan as it approaches the rotate speed, so the pull starts on the number rather than when you notice it has passed.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 721 m runway.
Rolled from 49 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 11 m at the widest, and lifted off 11 m right. Airborne 59 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 658 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 102 m of runway left; gear up at 48 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 870 fpm on average to 658 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Over the threshold
The flare mostly held the target profile
The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 9.7° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 124 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 20 ft. Touched down 124 m in, 181 m short of 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 1,220 fpm at the flare to 420 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 9.4° on the way down. Into the flare at 74 kt, 7 kt over the 67 kt approach speed, and 72 kt at touchdown.
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 on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.7 m left at the widest. Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, 5.1° of bank.
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 124 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.78 G arrival bounced 3 times.
The rest of the report
The Commander 114 departed from runway 19R at EDUD Reinheim Airfield. Takeoff was performed using 446 m of runway, which represented 62 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 78 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 10 °C, wind 1 kt from 186°, with a cross-wind component of 0 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt.
During the initial climb the aircraft reached 1,000 ft agl in 42 seconds, averaging 1,201 fpm and attaining 96 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,519 ft asl to 6,784 ft asl over 5 minutes while covering 7 nm, beginning the segment overhead Reinheim.
Cruise was brief before descent began. The descent from 6,766 ft asl to 629 ft asl was completed in 3 minutes, covering another 7 nm and starting overhead Gross-Bieberau.
Approach and landing were conducted 1 mile north-west of Brensbach, Hessen, Germany. The final descent reduced altitude from 46 ft agl to 0 ft agl, a loss of 46 ft in 3 seconds. The flare was described as very good, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred at a speed of 72 kt, noted as a little fast, with a hard touchdown rate of minus 418 fpm. The touchdown point was 124 m down the runway, and three bounces were recorded. Local weather at landing was temperature 10 °C, wind 1 kt from 257°, with a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 0 kt.
The rollout continued to an altitude of 567 ft asl and covered a distance of 203 m. The total flight distance was 15 nm, the flight time was 9 minutes, and fuel consumption was recorded as 0 kg.
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