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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Use small rudder inputs against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout.
What happened: During the rollout the aircraft drifted 9.7 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 54 kt, on the 52 kt target, and lifted off at 57 kt 1.1 s later, the nose coming up at 3.5° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 67 kt target, at 62 kt on average.
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 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 495 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 290 m of runway left; then climbing at 650 fpm on average to 495 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 802 m runway.
Rolled from 36 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 41 % 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: seven 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°.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high all the way, right of the centreline until 0.4 nm, sinking too fast from 0.9 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.
High from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 640 ft over).
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.
Inside the 1° band from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm, then drifted 37 m right between 0.8 and 0.4 nm, then inside the band from 0.4 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −3 kt and +10 kt on the approach speed of 64 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 mostly held the target profile. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 5 times on the way down. Touchdown was 317 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 239° at 6 kt · 6 kt head · 2 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 44 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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 802 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 15 ft; ballooned 5 ft from 3 ft. Touched down 317 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 802 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 260 fpm before coming down at 110 fpm to touch. The nose came up 8.6° 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 802 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3 m right of the centreline and drifted to 11 m left 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.
The 317 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Tecnam P2008, registration JC, departed LSZL Locarno Airport on runway 26R. The aircraft used a takeoff distance of 343 m, representing 43 % of the runway, and achieved liftoff at 57 kt. Ambient conditions were 26 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 240°, including a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 6 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced over Magadino in Ticino, Switzerland, where the aircraft rose from 969 ft asl to 2,055 ft asl, a gain of 1,086 ft in 2 minutes while covering 2 nm.
Level cruise began again over Magadino and continued for 3 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 4 nm.
The final approach to runway 26R at LSZL was executed from the east on a heading of 259.0° at 1 nm and 820 ft agl.
Landing was performed on runway 26R, whose length is 802 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 61 kt, above the target. Touchdown occurred after 314 m, at a speed of 38 kt, with a descent rate of minus 50 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 3.1 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 27 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 214°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
Rollout distance measured 534 m, equivalent to 67 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s alignment drifted 9.6 m from the centreline during the rollout.
The aircraft taxied to parking from the runway in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 8 nm, required 7 minutes, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
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