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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
Trim is the hidden variable. In trim, the flare is a small refinement to an aircraft already in equilibrium, a couple of millimetres of stick. Out of trim, you're holding a constant force all the way down final, and the flare becomes a large, badly judged movement stacked on top of a load you're already carrying. A striking proportion of "I can't judge the flare" complaints are trim complaints wearing a disguise. If you're holding pressure at 500 feet, fix that before you practise anything else.
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Events
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 42 kt with 4.7° of pitch.
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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 284 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,454 m of runway left; then climbing at 620 fpm on average to 284 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 1,814 m runway.
Rolled from 160 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 1.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.7 m right. Airborne 12 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt tail · 1 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 756 m in, 451 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 340 fpm at 30 ft to 40 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 9.0° 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 first 1,524 m of the 1,814 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.4 m left of the centreline.
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.
Touched down 756 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport. The aircraft, a DV20, required a takeoff distance of 80 meters, which was 4% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was achieved at 42 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 270 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 2 knots.
Following the departure, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. This phase began overhead EGPE Inverness Airport, which is located in Inverness, Scotland.
As the flight progressed, the aircraft began its final approach to runway 05 at EGPE Inverness Airport. The approach was made from the south-west, with a heading of 52.0 degrees at an altitude of 77 feet above ground level (agl) and at a distance of 0 nautical miles from the runway. The approach was characterized by a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 270 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 1 knot and a tailwind of 2 knots.
The landing was executed on runway 05, which has a length of 1,814 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was well above the target speed at 61 knots. The touchdown point was located 309 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 36 knots, which was considered good. The touchdown rate was also perfect at -40 feet per minute (fpm). However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 5.4 meters.
The total flight distance was 2 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 2 minutes. Notably, the aircraft used 0 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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