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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 60 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 42 kt, 18 kt before the 60 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 60 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to stop the drift as soon as it starts in the flare.
What happened: On the landing you drifted 9.9 m off the centreline, and that kind of lateral drift usually carries through to a touchdown point 10 m off centreline and into a rollout that is still skewed off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Heading indicator: track straight down the extended runway centreline through touchdown and rollout.
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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Events
Events
The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: centreline 1.8° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 906 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 906 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 125 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The TL3000 Sirius taxied to runway 22 at EGHN Isle of Wight / Sandown Airport and commenced the departure roll. The take-off run required 149 m, representing 16 % of the runway, and the aircraft lifted off at 50 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 1 kt.
During the approach the aircraft entered a right-hand pattern from runway 22, covering less than 1 nm in 23 seconds. The subsequent right-hand crosswind segment was also under 1 nm and lasted 10 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm at an angle of 46.3°, followed by a downwind leg of 2 nm completed in 65 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 1 nm at 50.2°, after which the base leg itself was less than 1 nm and took 14 seconds. The final turn was under 1 nm and required 43 seconds before the aircraft commenced the final approach.
The final approach descent reduced altitude from 330 ft AGL to 19 ft AGL in 42 seconds, and the aircraft met the stabilisation gates criteria.
Landing was executed on runway 22, whose length is 906 m. The threshold speed was recorded slightly below target at 47 kt. Touchdown occurred 122 m down the runway at a speed of 43 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 34 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 10.0 m from the centreline, and the total landing distance measured 224 m, equivalent to 25 % of the runway. Weather conditions remained 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, cross-wind 1 kt and head-wind 1 kt.
Rollout alignment was noted as slightly off centreline by 10.0 m.
In total the flight covered 5 nm, required 4 units of time as recorded, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
The TL3000 Sirius executed the final approach to runway 22 at EGHN Isle of Wight / Sandown Airport, descending from 330 ft AGL to 19 ft AGL in 42 seconds and receiving a score on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the aircraft established a speed of 47 kt, noted as a little below the target, and during flare the touchdown speed was 43 kt, described as a little fast; the touchdown rate was perfect at minus 34 fpm and the touchdown distance was good at 122 m.
Touchdown occurred 122 m down the runway at 43 kt with a rate of minus 34 fpm, but the touchdown point was misaligned by 10.0 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 224 m, representing 25 % of the 906 m runway, and the runway rollout alignment remained slightly misaligned by 10.0 m from the centreline.
Improving centreline tracking during the flare and rollout will reduce the 10-metre offset, and refining speed control to meet the target threshold and touchdown speeds will tighten the overall performance.
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