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Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 8.9 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 8.9 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 8.9 ft to touchdown.
See Arrival Landing
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 133 kt with 6.9° 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 835 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,880 m of runway left; then climbing at 790 fpm on average to 835 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 3,990 m runway.
Rolled from 98 m in, drifted 3.6 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 22 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.5 nm, about 1,200 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the speed.
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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 80 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 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 10 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 56 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 33 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.5 nm (up to +65 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Very good landing flare
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 104 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 25 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 549 m in, 244 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 440 fpm at 26 ft to 130 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 1,995 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 22 m right on 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.
Touched down 549 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in question began with the Honda HA420 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Frankfurt Airport, EDDF. This process took 17 minutes and covered a distance of 5 nautical miles. The aircraft then departed from runway 25C, with a takeoff distance of 905 meters, which accounted for 23% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 133 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of 11°C temperature and a wind speed of 4 knots at 210°. The crosswind and headwind were both 3 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile east of Raunheim, Hessen, Germany, and the aircraft climbed from 1,294 feet above sea level to 26,415 feet, an increase of 25,122 feet in 9 minutes, covering a distance of 29 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its descent, starting overhead Mandel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It descended from 26,154 feet to 23,988 feet, a decrease of 2,166 feet in 2 minutes, covering 11 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise started 1 mile south east of Kirn, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, and lasted 5 minutes, covering 37 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued its journey, with multiple enroute level cruises and descents. It climbed from 17,993 feet to 24,009 feet in 3 minutes, covering 15 nautical miles, and then began a long enroute level cruise that lasted 85 minutes, covering 450 nautical miles. The aircraft eventually began its descent, starting 3 miles south of Moi, Rogaland Fylke, Norway. It descended from 23,731 feet to 23,279 feet, a decrease of 452 feet in 2 minutes, covering 1 nautical mile.
The final approach to runway 31 at Haugesund Airport, Karmøy, ENHD, was made from the south east, heading 314.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,334 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 31, which had a length of 1,995 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 109 knots.
The touchdown point was 123 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 104 knots, which was a little fast. However, the touchdown rate was good at -159 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 15°C temperature and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270°, with a crosswind and headwind of 1 knot each.
The total landing distance was 1,376 meters, which accounted for 69% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The taxiing to the parking area from the runway took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 695 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 153 minutes, with a fuel consumption of 945 kilograms.
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