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Departure
Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 0.6 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 0.6 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final so the speed settles to 77 kt before the gate.
What happened: The approach was 52 kt fast at the stabilisation gate, and carrying that extra speed over the threshold usually carries the touchdown long, which happened here by 102 m.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 77 kt at the threshold.
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 104 kt with 1.8° 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 834 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 398 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,210 fpm on average to 834 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,093 m runway.
Rolled from 302 m in, never more than 1 m off the centreline, in 7 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 29 % 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 77 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, gear up until 1.0 nm, high until 0.6 nm and left of the centreline until 0.3 nm.
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.
High from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.6 nm (up to 490 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 475 m right of the centreline at 1.6 nm, then drifted 64 m left between 0.8 and 0.3 nm, then inside the band from 0.3 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 39 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +52 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
The flare held the target profile well. The flare began at 54 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 559 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
7 kt across from the right, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 94 kt. Touched down with the nose 5° into wind, 7° of bank.
Wind 008° at 8 kt · 3 kt head · 7 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 93 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.30 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 1,093 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 54 ft, 360 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 15 ft, 35 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 2 ft from 7 ft. Touched down 559 m in, 254 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 1,093 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 110 fpm before coming down at 110 fpm to touch. The nose came up 5.1° 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 1,093 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 7.6 m 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 559 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Lancair Legacy taxied to runway 30 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield and commenced the take-off roll. The takeoff distance was 369 m, which is 34 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 103 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 6 °C, wind 7 kt from 009°, giving a 7 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt headwind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 38 seconds, with an average climb rate of 1,117 fpm and a speed of 135 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then leveled at 2,600 ft asl for about 4 minutes, covering 8 nm and passing overhead Ville-la-Grand.
During final approach to runway 30, the descent began from 1,016 ft agl and reached 41 ft agl in 47 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, and sink rate, but were not met for glideslope and speed. The landing gear was down at 601 ft agl with a speed of 132 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 30. The runway length is 1,093 m; the threshold height was good but the threshold speed was excessively high at 111 kt. The flare began early and was described as great; touchdown speed was 94 kt, which was too fast, and the vertical rate at touchdown was a smooth -115 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was perfect and there was no bounce. The touchdown point used more than 50 % of the available runway, and the total landing distance was 892 m, representing 82 % of the runway. Runway rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 7.6 m.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 24 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 11 nm, lasted 28 minutes and consumed 3 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing matched departure conditions: temperature 6 °C, wind 7 kt from 009°, with a 7 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
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