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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 54 kt, not after it.
What happened: You started the rotation at 65 kt, 11 kt past the 54 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 54 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Use small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout, keeping the wings level with gentle aileron.
What happened: The aircraft rolled out on landing with 1° of bank angle.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator and hold the wings level through the rollout.
See Arrival Landing
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 65 kt, and lifted off at 67 kt 0.5 s later with 6.2° 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 234 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 597 m of runway left; then climbing at 870 fpm on average to 234 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 1,093 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 4.6 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 21 % 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 threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Left-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 0.9 nm out at 88 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.3 nm (up to 600 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 1.6 nm, never more than 80 m off the centreline.
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.
The rest of the report
The Robin DR400 taxied from the parking area to runway 30 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield, a taxi of 10 minutes covering 7 nm.
Take-off was on runway 30. The aircraft used 237 m of runway, 22 % of the available length, and rotated at 65 kt. Local weather at departure was 1 °C with wind 2 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
The initial climb to 400 ft agl lasted 14 seconds, averaging 765 fpm and reaching 73 kt at the top of the climb.
The left-hand circuit was completed in 4 minutes. The downwind leg was 2 nm and was flown in 70 seconds at 980 ft agl; the base leg was less than 1 nm and was flown in 17 seconds.
On final approach to runway 30, the descent was from 1,124 ft agl to 70 ft agl in 74 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, centreline, speed and wings level; the glideslope check was not met. At 30 ft agl the aircraft was in flap position 2 and was flying 85 kt.
Landing on runway 30 was recorded with a good threshold height. The threshold speed was 77 kt, well above target. The flare was described as great, with the pitch being pumped up and down during the flare. Touchdown occurred at 54 kt, with a smooth rate of -106 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. The touchdown distance was 424 m, and the total landing distance was 626 m, 57 % of the 1,093 m runway. Runway rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 1 °C with wind 2 kt from 269°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
The entire flight covered 15 nm in 8 minutes and used 2 kg of fuel.
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