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Avoid steep turns at low altitude
Below a thousand feet the aeroplane is slow, heavy and close to the ground. A steep turn loses lift, raises the stall speed and flattens the climb just when the gradient matters most. A normal turn on course is a rate one — fifteen degrees or so, twenty-five at the outside, this penalty is to acknowledge when a turn has stopped being a turn and become a manoeuvre.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 101 kt with 3.5° 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 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 970 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,220 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,360 fpm on average to 970 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 2,312 m runway.
Rolled from 264 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.7 m left. Airborne 38 % 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 final from 4 nm.
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 60 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.
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.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 155 m off the centreline.
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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 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 99 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 1,501 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 227 m in, 78 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 1,501 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 230 fpm at 14 ft to 50 fpm at 3 ft, then back up to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° 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 1,501 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 0.5 m of it down 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 227 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 19 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Cockspur C510, then departed from runway 33 at LOWS Salzburg Airport. The takeoff distance was 631 meters, which accounted for 27% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 102 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 16°C, with a wind speed of 1 knot at 270°. The crosswind was 1 knot, while the headwind was 0 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile south of Freilassing in Bavaria, Germany. The climb took 16 minutes and covered a distance of 46 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from 2,417 feet above sea level to 29,007 feet above sea level, an increase of 26,590 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, starting 7 miles south of Hollersbach im Pinzgau in Salzburg, Austria. This cruise phase lasted for 20 minutes and covered a distance of 104 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting overhead Malonno in Lombardia, Italy. The descent took 11 minutes and covered a distance of 61 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from 28,992 feet above sea level to 10,433 feet above sea level, a decrease of 18,558 feet.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, starting overhead Rovello Porro in Lombardia, Italy. This cruise phase lasted for 11 minutes and covered a distance of 49 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, starting 1 mile north of Gaby in Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, Italy. The descent took 6 minutes and covered a distance of 17 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from 9,466 feet above sea level to 3,092 feet above sea level, a decrease of 6,374 feet.
The final approach to runway 27 at LIMW Aosta Corrado Gex Airport was made from the east, with a heading of 268.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,294 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 27, which had a length of 1,501 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 103 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 226 meters, but the touchdown speed was too fast at 97 knots. The touchdown rate was smooth at -145 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 15°C, with a wind speed of 1 knot at 270°. The crosswind was 0 knots, while the headwind was 1 knot. The total landing distance was 619 meters, which accounted for 41% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was perfect. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took less than 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 286 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 74 minutes. The aircraft used 472 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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