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Improve the touchdown
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 64 kt with 2.6° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 408 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 201 m of runway left; then climbing at 870 fpm on average to 408 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.
Plan view the roll down the 747 m runway.
Rolled from 178 m in, drifted 3.2 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 51 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° left of the track, 3° of bank.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 0 kt head · 1 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 49 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 379 m in, 74 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 1,524 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 320 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.0° 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 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 76 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 7.6 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 379 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at LRPW Gheorghe Valentin Bibescu took less than a minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll commenced on runway 26, with the aircraft utilizing 54% of the available runway length to achieve liftoff. The takeoff distance was 401 meters, and the aircraft lifted off at a speed of 64 knots. Local weather conditions at the time of departure included a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 270 degrees. The crosswind component was negligible, while the headwind component was 2 knots.
As the aircraft cleared the airport, it began its enroute climb, ascending from an initial altitude of 996 feet above sea level to 1,099 feet. This increase in altitude was achieved in less than a minute, with the aircraft covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, maintaining an altitude of 1,099 feet for 2 minutes while covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The cruise phase was initiated overhead LRPW Gheorghe Valentin Bibescu, marking a brief return to the airport's vicinity.
The enroute descent phase commenced 1 mile south of Ploiesti, with the aircraft descending from an altitude of 1,459 feet to 758 feet. This decrease in altitude was achieved in 2 minutes, with the aircraft covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The total flight distance was 6 nautical miles, with the entire flight duration lasting 16 minutes. Fuel consumption for the flight was 4 kilograms.
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