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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 1.3°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 2.3° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
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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Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 42 kt with 3.3° 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 418 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 507 m of runway left; then climbing at 710 fpm on average to 418 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 906 m runway.
Rolled from 57 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 m right. Airborne 18 % 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: six 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: centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 10 kt above the approach speed of 43 kt.
When the approach was stable
Not every check held at once from 1.0 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 4° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 90 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: 4° here, which is about 420 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 70 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.
Inside the 1° band from 1.2 nm, where the final began, to 1.0 nm, then drifted 63 m left between 1.0 and 0.6 nm, then inside the band 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 22 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 13 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 1.2 nm, where the final began, to 1.0 nm, then fast to 0.3 nm (up to +18 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.
three-point landing
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 19° right of the track, 3° of bank.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt tail · 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 39 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 6 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 772 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 16 ft, 127 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 4 ft, 46 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 124 m in, 181 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 772 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 260 fpm at the flare to 50 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 10.5° 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 772 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.2 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.2 m right by the end of 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 124 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied to runway 22 at EGHN Isle of Wight / Sandown Airport and commenced the take-off roll, covering 190 m which represented 21 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 43 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, including a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
Climb began directly overhead the departure field, with the aeroplane ascending from 486 ft asl to 989 ft asl - a gain of 503 ft - in 1 minute while traversing 1 nm.
Level cruise was established over Newchurch, lasting 3 minutes and covering a distance of 4 nm before the descent phase was initiated.
During the final-approach descent the aircraft reduced altitude from 622 ft agl to 5 ft agl in 60 seconds, meeting the required stabilisation-gate criteria.
The subsequent final approach was directed to runway 12 at EGHJ Bembridge Airport.
Landing was executed on runway 12, whose length is 772 m. The threshold speed was slightly below the target at 37 kt. Touchdown occurred 121 m down the runway at 25 kt with a vertical speed of minus 33 fpm, and the touchdown point was offset 3.5 m from the centreline. Local weather at the destination was 20 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 223°, a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component. Total landing distance measured 207 m, representing 27 % of the runway.
Rollout proceeded with runway-alignment judged very good, confirming the aircraft remained on the centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, took 14 minutes, and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
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