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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 0.8°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: You drifted off the centreline on the approach.
Watch for: Runway centreline: tracked all the way to the threshold.
See Arrival Approach
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 · 18 stages, 16 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 78 kt with 0.5° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 89 kt target, at 93 kt on average.
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 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 433 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 703 m of runway left; then climbing at 660 fpm on average to 433 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 1,362 m runway.
Rolled from 64 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.6 m right. Airborne 32 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 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 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.0 nm, about 580 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 230 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 156 m right of the centreline at 1.7 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +24 kt on the approach speed of 71 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
Perfect landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 61 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, 2° of bank.
Wind 310° at 8 kt · 7 kt head · 3 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 54 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 16 ft. Touched down 434 m in, 130 m past the ideal 305 m.
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 1,524 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.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 290 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.5° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the full 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 5.3 m left on the rollout, back to 0.2 m left by the end.
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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 434 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 departed KAST Astoria Regional Airport on runway 32. The take-off roll was 512 m, using 38 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 77 kt. Local weather at departure was 14 °C with wind 6 kt from 339°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and a 6 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 34 seconds, averaging 450 fpm and reaching 93 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 456 ft asl to 2,527 ft asl in 3 minutes while covering 5 nm, remaining overhead KAST Astoria. Level flight continued at 2,800 ft asl for 8 minutes, covering 17 nm, beginning 2 nm south of Jeffers Garden. A further climb from 2,819 ft asl to 3,420 ft asl lasted 2 minutes and covered 3 nm, starting 6 nm north-east of Nehalem. The aircraft then cruised level at 3,500 ft asl for 7 minutes, covering 14 nm, beginning 3 nm north-east of Nehalem. Descent began from 2,999 ft asl to 812 ft asl in 5 minutes, covering 11 nm, starting 1 nm north-east of Idaville.
For the final approach to runway 31 at KTMK Tillamook Airport, descent from 930 ft agl to 75 ft agl was completed in 84 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed, and wings level; the centreline check was not met. The aircraft was configured on final with gear down and landing flaps.
Touchdown occurred on runway 31 with a threshold speed of 74 kt. The flare was described as perfect, with little round-out. Touchdown distance was 434 m, speed 61 kt, and rate -90 fpm; runway touchdown alignment was perfect and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 636 m, representing 42 % of the 1,524 m runway. Runway rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was 16 °C with wind 8 kt from 310°, giving a 3 kt cross-wind and a 7 kt head-wind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 56 nm in 34 minutes and used 10 kg of fuel.
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