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Maintain a smooth pitch
See Departure Roll
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 71 kt with 4.4° 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 993 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 211 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,040 fpm on average to 993 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 732 m runway.
Rolled from 101 m in, drifted 2.2 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 6 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 49 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 450 ft above the slope.
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.
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 344 m left of the centreline at 2.0 nm, then inside the band from 0.9 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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −16 kt and +36 kt on the approach speed of 68 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
8 kt across from the left, which takes about 9° of crab to hold the centreline at 53 kt. Touched down with 6° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 135° at 11 kt · 8 kt head · 8 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 54 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 1,230 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 7 ft, 43 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 23 m in, 282 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 1,230 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 stayed between 420 fpm and 550 fpm from 7 ft to the runway. The nose came up 1.4° 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 1,230 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.1 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 23 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 09 at Siegen-Eisernhardt Airfield, EDYK. The aircraft, a Piper PA-24-250 Comanche, accelerated down the runway and lifted off at a speed of 71 kt, covering a distance of 278 m, which was 38% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 25 °C and a wind speed of 12 kt from a direction of 130 °, resulting in a crosswind of 7 kt and a headwind of 9 kt.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airfield, it began its enroute climb 1 mile east of EDYK, rising from an altitude of 2,295 ft to 4,479 ft in just 4 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nm. This initial climb phase was followed by a brief level cruise 1 mile south of Burbach, lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nm. The aircraft then began another climb phase, this time overhead Willingen, where it ascended from 4,852 ft to 5,313 ft in 2 minutes, covering 4 nm.
The next phase of the flight involved a level cruise 1 mile south east of Rehe, lasting 10 minutes and covering 23 nm. This was followed by a descent phase, which began 2 miles west of Ober-Morlen and saw the aircraft descend from 5,443 ft to 1,184 ft in 5 minutes, covering 10 nm. The final approach to runway 18 at Reichelsheim Airfield, EDFB, was made from the north, with the aircraft heading 193.0 ° at 1 nm and 766 ft above ground level.
The landing on runway 18 was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 52 kt and a distance of 20 m. The touchdown rate was a bit hard, at -464 fpm, but the runway rollout alignment was very good. The total landing distance was 254 m, which was 21% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 29 °C and a wind speed of 11 kt from a direction of 135 °, resulting in a crosswind of 7 kt and a headwind of 8 kt.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 49 nm and lasted 24 minutes, using 79 kg of fuel. The flight was a smooth and efficient one, with the aircraft performing well in a variety of conditions.
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