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Add power on short final to hold 65 kt at the threshold rather than letting speed decay.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 54 kt against a target of 65 kt, below reference speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, hold 65 kt down to the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 59 kt, and lifted off at 61 kt 1.1 s later, the nose coming up at 6.0° a second.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 208 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 369 m of runway left; then climbing at 700 fpm on average to 208 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 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 318 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 54 % 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 threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Right-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 0.8 nm out at 85 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Low: turned crosswind at 315 ft, below the 500 ft minimum.
Each lap slightly wider and higher than the last, because you're unconsciously using the previous lap as your reference instead of the runway and the numbers. Invisible lap to lap, unmistakable across ten. This is the failure that only measurement catches, because your memory of lap three is gone by lap eight.
Read more in Pattern WorkSteep: 37° of bank.
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
Read more in Pattern WorkLate: turned base with the threshold 26° behind, against 45°.
The stopwatch. From abeam the threshold, fly roughly 30 to 45 seconds before turning base, in nil wind at 172 speeds. Treat that as a starting value and calibrate it. If your finals keep coming out at 400 ft instead of 500, add a few seconds. Then adjust for wind, roughly a second per knot of headwind on final (a headwind on final is a tailwind on downwind, carrying you further from the field per second).
Read more in Pattern WorkGood: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 340 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.
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 2.3 nm, never more than 294 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.
The rest of the report
The Robin DR400 departed from runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield. The take-off run was 604 m, 55 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 59 kt. Local weather at departure was 16 °C with wind 2 kt from 269°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt tail-wind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 16 seconds, averaging 725 fpm and reaching 64 kt at the top of the climb.
The right-hand circuit for runway 12 lasted 7 minutes. The downwind leg was 5 nm and was flown in 207 seconds at 1 000 ft agl; the base leg was less than 1 nm and was completed in 10 seconds.
Final approach descended from 924 ft agl to 2 ft agl in 115 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. The aircraft was in final flap position 2 at 1 010 ft agl and was at 85 kt.
Landing was on runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield, whose length is 1 101 m. The threshold speed was 54 kt, a little below target. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 275 m down the runway at 44 kt with a descent rate of minus 62 fpm; alignment was perfect and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 465 m, 42 % of the runway, and rollout alignment remained perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 11 nm in 11 minutes and used 2 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 15 °C with wind 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt tail-wind.
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