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Events
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Departure
Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 42 kt, holding a steady rotation rate rather than snatching the controls.
What happened: On the takeoff roll the aircraft bounced before becoming fully airborne.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: a smooth, continuous pitch-up through liftoff with no secondary bounce.
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Arrival
Add power on short final to hold speed at 41 kt, correcting the slow threshold speed before it carries through to the flare.
What happened: Threshold speed was slow at 40 kt against 41 kt, and touchdown followed short of the aim point at 26 m. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries the touchdown short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 41 kt on short final.
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 38 kt, 4 kt below the 42 kt target, and lifted off at 44 kt 0.6 s later, the nose coming up at 5.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 63 kt, 8 kt under its 71 kt target.
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 1,003 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 906 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,270 fpm on average to 1,003 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 1,234 m runway.
Rolled from 54 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.6 m left. Airborne 13 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, about 350 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 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. 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 252 m left of the centreline at 1.3 nm, then drifted 38 m right between 0.9 and 0.6 nm, then inside the band from 0.6 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 21 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 12 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −5 kt and +5 kt on the approach speed of 41 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 aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 182° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 40 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 6 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 339 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 22 ft, 276 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 39 ft, 11 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 26 m before the threshold.
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 339 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.
Plan view — the full 339 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
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.
Touched down 26 m short of the threshold. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Savage Cub taxied to runway 29 at KSVE Susanville Municipal Airport and commenced its takeoff roll, covering 192 m which represented 16 % of the available runway; liftoff was achieved at 45 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind from 226° at 3 kt, a cross-wind component of 3 kt and no head-wind.
Climbing out over Johnstonville, California, the aircraft rose from 5,163 ft asl to 6,039 ft asl, gaining 875 ft in 2 minutes while traversing 3 nm.
The first cruise segment began 1 mile south of Johnstonville and continued for 8 minutes, during which the airplane covered 12 nm at level flight.
A second climb started 8 miles southeast of Janesville, California; altitude increased from 6,420 ft asl to 6,975 ft asl, an ascent of 555 ft accomplished in 2 minutes over a distance of 2 nm.
The subsequent cruise phase originated 8 miles west of H37 Herlong, California, lasting 12 minutes and encompassing 16 nm of level flight.
For the final approach to runway 33 at CA11 Mc Cloud Airstrip, the aircraft approached from the south on a heading of 344.0° at 1 nm and 495 ft agl.
Landing was executed on runway 33, whose length is 339 m; the threshold speed was slightly below target at 40 kt, touchdown occurred beyond 75 % of the runway with a speed of 36 kt, a vertical speed of minus 5 fpm and perfect alignment. Weather at the field was 16 °C, wind 3 kt from 226°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind. The total landing distance recorded was 427 m, equal to 126 % of the runway.
Rollout proceeded with the aircraft remaining perfectly aligned on the runway centreline until it came to a stop.
In summary, the flight covered a total of 34 nm, required 25 minutes of elapsed time and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
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