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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 50 kt, not after it.
What happened: You started the rotation at 70 kt, 20 kt past the 50 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 50 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Use small rudder inputs against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout.
What happened: During the rollout the aircraft drifted 25 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
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 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 70 kt, 20 kt above the 50 kt target, and lifted off at 79 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 1.3° 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 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 330 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 445 m of runway left; then climbing at 630 fpm on average to 330 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 1,293 m runway.
Rolled from 61 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 7 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.7 m left. Airborne 27 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set and speed more than 27 kt above the approach speed of 54 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: no landing flap set and speed more than 16 kt above the approach speed of 54 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, no landing flap until 0.5 nm and left of the centreline until 0.2 nm.
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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 410 ft below 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.6 nm, then drifted 19 m left between 0.6 and 0.2 nm, then inside the band from 0.2 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 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +46 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 flare mostly held the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.7° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 339 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
7 kt across from the left, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 55 kt. Touched down with 7° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 000° at 8 kt · 3 kt head · 7 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 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 80 ft, 30 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 13 ft. Touched down 339 m in, close to 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 560 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 first 1,524 m of the 3,986 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4 m left of the centreline and drifted to 25 m left on the rollout.
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 339 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 205 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The JMB VL-3 Sprint departed from runway 36 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield. Take-off distance was 365 m, 28 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 70 kt. Local weather was 9 °C with wind 6 kt from 010°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 6 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 30 seconds, averaging 508 fpm and reaching 127 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 310 ft asl to 1,345 ft asl in 2 minutes while covering 4 nm, passing overhead Reichelsheim.
Level flight was maintained at 1,200 ft asl for 11 minutes, covering 25 nm and beginning 2 miles west of Florstadt.
During final approach to runway 07C at EDDF Frankfurt Airport, descent was from 455 ft agl to -370 ft agl in 163 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; they were not met for landing flap and speed. Configuration on final was flap position 1 at 276 ft agl with an airspeed of 88 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 07C. Threshold height at 81 ft agl was significantly above target and threshold speed was too high at 70 kt. The flare was described as very good, with little round-out. Touchdown distance was 339 m, touchdown speed was 55 kt (too fast), and touchdown rate was -206 fpm (fair). The touchdown point was slightly misaligned, 4.0 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 607 m, 15 % of the 3,986 m runway, and rollout alignment was misaligned by 24.6 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 10 °C with wind 8 kt from 360°, a 7 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind.
The flight covered 35 nm in 15 minutes and used 4 kg of fuel.
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