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Departure
Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 0.7 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 0.7 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Make one smooth, continuous back-pressure through the flare to about 7.6° nose-up, holding it steady rather than pumping the elevator before touchdown.
What happened: The flare was pumped, with pitch reversing several times as the sink was most arrested at 6.1 ft; pumped flares like this usually carry through to a firm touchdown, which happened here at 482 fpm.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold a steady nose-up pitch of 7.6° through the flare, smoothly to touchdown.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 16 stages, 14 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 93 kt against the 93 kt rotate speed, the nose rising at 2.4° a second, then held 12.4° from 35 ft, within 1.7° top to bottom.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 49 m in, drifted 2.1 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 46 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to 53 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 379 m of runway left.
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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare.
Left-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 1.2 nm out at 116 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Low: turned crosswind at 374 ft, below the 500 ft minimum.
Each lap slightly wider and higher than the last, because you're unconsciously using the previous lap as your reference instead of the runway and the numbers. Invisible lap to lap, unmistakable across ten. This is the failure that only measurement catches, because your memory of lap three is gone by lap eight.
Read more in Pattern WorkSteep: 42° of bank.
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
Read more in Pattern WorkSteep: 38° of bank.
Good: full marks on the turn.
Over the threshold
The flare wandered off the target profile
The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 2 times on the way down. Touchdown was 59 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,101 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 20 ft, 45 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 8 ft, 42 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 59 m in, 246 m short of 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 1,101 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 680 fpm at the flare to 310 fpm at 6 ft, then back up to 480 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 6.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 88 kt, 12 kt over the 76 kt approach speed, and 84 kt at touchdown.
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 1,101 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.5 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 1.3 m right by the end of the rollout. Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, 9.0° of bank.
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 59 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.43 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Lancair Legacy taxied to runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield and departed on a roll of 536 m, which was 49 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 82 kt. Local weather was 10 °C with wind 0 kt from 269°, no cross-wind and no head-wind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl lasted 3 seconds, averaging 946 fpm and reaching 106 kt at the top of the climb.
The aircraft entered a left-hand circuit for runway 12. The circuit time was 1 minute. The downwind leg was less than 1 nm and lasted 25 seconds at 980 ft agl; the base leg was also less than 1 nm and lasted 7 seconds.
On the final approach the threshold speed was well above target at 86 kt. The flare was described as good, although the pitch was pumped up and down during the flare. Touchdown occurred 59 m down the runway, at a speed of 84 kt, which was fast. The touchdown rate was hard at minus 483 fpm and the aircraft landed slightly misaligned by 3.5 m from the centreline. One bounce occurred on touchdown. Total landing distance was 571 m, representing 52 % of the 1,101 m runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxi from the runway to the parking area took 11 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 3 nm, lasted 9 minutes and used 3 kg of fuel.
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