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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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 76 kt with 5.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 113 kt, 9 kt over its 104 kt target.
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 819 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,641 ft of runway left; gear up at 767 ft, 367 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 880 fpm on average to 819 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 5,637 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 19 ft at the widest, and lifted off 19 ft left. Airborne 22 % 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 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: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 81 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow until 0.8 nm, banked until 0.7 nm, high until 0.4 nm, sinking too fast from 0.7 nm and left of the centreline from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
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.
High from 1.0 nm, where the final began, to 0.4 nm (up to 320 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, 1,000 ft 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 250 ft right of the centreline at 1.0 nm, then 90 ft left of it from 0.4 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 41 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 1.0 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm (up to −13 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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. It lost 3.9 points, for touching down at 3.8°, under the aircraft's ground attitude.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 0 kt head · 0 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 80 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 4,978 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 34 ft, 183 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 20 ft, 30 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 724 ft in, 276 ft short of the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 4,978 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 750 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.9° 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 4,978 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 28 ft left of the centreline and drifted to 49 ft right 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 724 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from KOSH Wittman Regional Airport, the Mooney Ovation M20R aircraft began its takeoff roll on runway 27. The aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 77 kt, achieving liftoff in a distance of 1,308 ft, which represented 23% of the available runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 60 °F and a wind speed of 1 kt from 270°, resulting in a negligible crosswind component.
As the aircraft transitioned to the enroute phase, it began a climb from 1,582 ft above sea level to 1,518 ft, an increase of 64 ft in less than 1 minute, while covering a distance of less than 1 nm. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which lasted 2 minutes and covered 4 nm. The climb phase was repeated several times, with the aircraft reaching a maximum altitude of 6,108 ft above sea level. The level cruise phase was also repeated, with the aircraft maintaining a steady altitude for extended periods. The descent phase began 4 miles east of CYBW Calgary / Springbank Airport, where the aircraft descended from 5,999 ft to 5,332 ft in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
The aircraft then entered the final approach phase, aligning with runway 35 at CYBW Calgary / Springbank Airport. The aircraft touched down on the runway at a speed of 74 kt, with a touchdown distance of 727 ft, which was within acceptable limits. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was significantly misaligned. The aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering a distance of less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 1,126 nm, and the aircraft used 285 lbs of fuel during the flight, which lasted 425 minutes.
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