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Departure
Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 43 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.
See Departure Roll
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 11 stages, 9 scored
The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: six 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.
At the 300 ft gate: sink rate 1,152 fpm, more than the glideslope needed, glideslope 8.5° against the runway's 3°, centreline 8.3° off, against a 1° limit and wings 17° of bank, against a 10° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 2,424 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,424 m of the 3,762 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,873 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Taylorcraft BC-12D departed from runway 07R at PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, using a takeoff distance of 606 m which represented 16 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 59 kt. Ambient conditions were 20 °C with a wind from 224° at 3 kt, a 2 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt tailwind component.
Climb commenced overhead the departure airport, with the aircraft climbing from 173 ft asl to 125 ft asl, an increase of 48 ft, in 1 minutes while covering less than 1 nm.
A go-around was executed on runway 25L at PANC, the aircraft aborting the approach at 0 ft agl before re-establishing a climb.
Subsequent landing was performed on runway 25L, whose total length is 3,762 m. The threshold height at 95 ft agl was significantly above the target and the threshold speed was recorded as 87 kt. Touchdown occurred 1,334 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 44 kt and a descent rate of minus 14 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 12.1 m from the centreline. Local weather remained 20 °C with a wind from 227° at 3 kt, a 2 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt headwind component.
Rollout distance measured 2,220 m, representing 59 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s path was misaligned by 21.4 m from the centreline during the rollout.
In total the flight covered 4 nm, taking 3, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
The Taylorcraft BC-12D approached runway 25L at PANC in 20 °C conditions with a wind from 227° at 3 kt, including a 2 kt headwind and a 2 kt crosswind, and prepared for landing on the 3,762 m runway.
During the threshold and flare phase the threshold height was recorded at 95 ft AGL, which was significantly above the target, and the threshold speed was excessively high at 87 kt.
Touchdown occurred 1,334 m beyond the designated touchdown zone; the aircraft’s speed at touchdown was 44 kt, described as good, and the vertical rate was perfect at minus 14 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 12.1 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 2,220 m, representing 59 % of the runway length, and the runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 21.4 m from the centreline.
To improve the 58.8 % score, reduce the threshold speed and height to meet target values and aim to touch down within the touchdown zone while maintaining centreline alignment throughout the rollout.
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