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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 10°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Add power at the gate to bring the speed up to 65 kt and hold it through the approach.
What happened: This flight was slow at the stabilisation gate, 60 kt against 65 kt, and still slow crossing the threshold at 54 kt against 65 kt. Carrying low speed into the flare like this usually leaves little energy to cushion the touchdown, and this one arrived firm at 172 fpm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 65 kt at the gate
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 54 kt, and lifted off at 59 kt 2.1 s later, the nose coming up at 3.2° a second.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 106 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 364 m of runway left; then climbing at 590 fpm on average to 106 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 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 361 m in, drifted 1.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 56 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm (up to 430 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 269 m right of the centreline at 1.3 nm, then inside the band from 1.0 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.
The rest of the report
The Robin DR400 departed from runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield. Take-off used 621 m, 56 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 54 kt. Local weather was 16 °C with wind 2 kt from 269°, crosswind 1 kt and tailwind 2 kt.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl lasted 10 seconds, averaging 627 fpm and reaching 63 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,765 ft asl to 5,217 ft asl in 9 minutes while covering 11 nm, starting overhead the airfield. Cruise continued until descent began.
Descent from 5,263 ft asl to 2,838 ft asl took 5 minutes over 7 nm, starting overhead Arenthon. Level flight at 2,600 ft asl lasted 6 minutes and covered 7 nm, starting overhead Pers-Jussy.
Final approach to runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield descended from 902 ft agl to 46 ft agl in 69 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap and sink rate, but not met for glideslope and speed.
Landing on runway 12 used a threshold speed of 54 kt, a little below target. The flare was described as great, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 155 m from the threshold at 44 kt and a rate of minus 173 fpm; alignment was perfect and no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 393 m, 36 % of the runway, with perfect rollout alignment.
Taxiing to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The flight covered 27 nm in 22 minutes and consumed 5 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 15 °C with wind 2 kt from 270°, crosswind 1 kt and tailwind 2 kt.
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