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Keep the approach speed on target
See Arrival Landing
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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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 3.2° 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 974 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,203 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,900 fpm on average to 974 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 2,593 m runway.
Rolled from 660 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.7 m left. 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.
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 110 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 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 13 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 100 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 22 ft, 28 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 575 m in, 270 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 520 fpm at 23 ft to 60 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.8° 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 3,037 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6.8 m right 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.
Touched down 575 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with taxiing from the parking area to the runway, which took 18 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Cockspur C510, then departed from runway 26 at Linz-Hörsching Airport / Vogler Air Base. The takeoff distance was 553 meters, which accounted for 21% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 101 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 270 degrees. There was no crosswind, but a headwind of 1 knot was present. The aircraft began its enroute climb 1 mile east of Oftering, Austria, and ascended from an altitude of 2,004 feet above sea level to 24,009 feet above sea level, a total increase of 22,005 feet. This climb took 11 minutes and covered a distance of 38 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 1 mile northwest of Tettenweis, Germany. This phase lasted for 14 minutes and covered a distance of 121 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent 1 mile southwest of EDPA Aalen Heidenheim Elchingen Airfield Neresheim, Germany. The descent took 9 minutes and covered a distance of 36 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 23,861 feet above sea level to 2,453 feet above sea level.
The final approach to runway 25 at Stuttgart Airport was made from the east, with the aircraft heading 254.0 degrees at an altitude of 1,200 feet above ground level and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway. The landing was made on runway 25, which had a length of 3,037 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was too high at 119 knots. The touchdown point was 140 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 99 knots, which was also too fast. However, the touchdown rate was excellent at -55 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.0 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned by 7.7 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 270 degrees, with no crosswind and a headwind of 1 knot. The total landing distance was 1,162 meters, which accounted for 38% of the runway.
The total flight distance was 203 nautical miles, and the flight took 40 minutes to complete. The aircraft used 324 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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