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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 79 kt with 5.5° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 106 kt, 8 kt under its 114 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 553 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 231 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,070 fpm on average to 553 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 732 m runway.
Rolled from 75 m in, never more than 1.5 m off the centreline, in 9 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 41 % 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.
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: no landing flap set, centreline more than 1° off and wings more than 10° from level.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap until 0.7 nm, left of the centreline from 0.6 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 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° 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 117 m right of the centreline at 1.0 nm, then 45 m left of it from 0.6 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +19 kt on the approach speed of 83 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 flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 4 times on the way down. Touchdown was 467 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
6 kt across from the right, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 78 kt. Touched down with the nose 4° left of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 143° at 12 kt · 9 kt tail · 6 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 90 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 18 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 1,293 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 55 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft; ballooned 4 ft from 6 ft. Touched down 467 m in, 162 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 1,293 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 160 fpm before coming down at 200 fpm to touch. The nose came up 5.1° 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 1,293 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.4 m left at the widest.
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 467 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.25 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
Departing Siegen-Eisernhardt Airfield, the Bonanza G36 began its takeoff roll on runway 09, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 79 kt in 310 meters, which accounted for 42% of the runway's length. The aircraft then transitioned into a steady climb, reaching an altitude of 2,993 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nm. This initial climb phase was characterized by a moderate rate of ascent, with an increase of 1,052 ft in a short period.
As the aircraft continued its enroute phase, it encountered various changes in altitude and airspeed. A descent from 2,965 ft asl to 2,229 ft asl was initiated 1 mile west of Burbach, followed by a brief level cruise phase 1 mile south east of the same location. The aircraft then climbed from 2,644 ft asl to 3,649 ft asl in 3 minutes, covering 7 nm, before entering a prolonged level cruise phase 1 mile north west of Asslar. This cruise phase lasted 10 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 23 nm. The final descent phase began 1 mile north west of Reichelsheim, with the aircraft descending from 3,355 ft asl to 871 ft asl in 3 minutes, covering 5 nm.
The Bonanza G36 then initiated its final approach to runway 36 at Reichelsheim Airfield, aligning itself with the runway at 1 nm and 473 ft agl. The aircraft touched down on the runway at a speed of 78 kt, with a touchdown distance of 467 m. Although the touchdown speed was slightly above the target, the runway touchdown alignment was perfect. The total landing distance was 822 m, accounting for 67% of the runway's length. The aircraft's runway rollout alignment was also very good, indicating a smooth and controlled deceleration. The total flight distance was 53 nm, with a fuel consumption of 15 kg.
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