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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 71 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 55 kt against a target of 71 kt, running 16 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 71 kt.
Arrival
Select landing flap before the stabilisation gate so it is configured on every approach.
What happened: Landing flap was not set at the stabilisation gate.
Watch for: Flap indicator: landing flap selected before the gate
See Arrival Approach
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 14 stages, 12 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 44 kt, on the 42 kt target, and lifted off at 51 kt 0.8 s later, the nose coming up at 1.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 55 kt, 16 kt under its 71 kt target.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 947 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 642 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,110 fpm on average to 947 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 941 m runway.
Rolled from 34 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 15 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 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 500 ft gate: no landing flap set and speed more than 12 kt above the approach speed of 41 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.8 nm, about 430 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. 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 270 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. 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.
Joined 1,111 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 2.5 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 21 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 12 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 0.8 nm (up to +39 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.0 points, for starting the flare at 10 ft agl, below the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 182° at 2 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 38 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 1,383 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 10 ft. Touched down 308 m in, close to 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 1,383 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 110 fpm at the flare to 40 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.2° 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 1,383 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.5 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.7 m left 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.
The 308 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied to runway 03 at O79 Sierraville Dearwater and commenced the departure roll. Takeoff was achieved after a ground run of 167 m, representing 18 % of the available runway, and liftoff occurred at 52 kt. Local conditions were 3 °C temperature, wind 1 kt from 182°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
The initial climb began overhead O79 Sierraville Dearwater, climbing from 5,946 ft asl to 6,369 ft asl. The altitude gain of 424 ft was attained in 1 minute while covering less than 1 nm.
A level cruise segment followed, also overhead O79 Sierraville Dearwater, lasting 3 minutes and encompassing a distance of 5 nm.
The next climb segment started 2 miles south-east of O79 Sierraville Dearwater, with the aircraft ascending from 6,616 ft asl to 7,158 ft asl. An increase of 542 ft was achieved in 2 minutes while traveling 2 nm.
Subsequent cruise commenced 4 miles south-east of O79 Sierraville Dearwater and persisted for 12 minutes, during which 17 nm were covered.
For the final approach to runway 20 at KTRK Truckee Tahoe Airport, the aircraft approached from the north-east, maintaining a heading of 211.0° at 2 nm and 914 ft agl.
During the descent phase the aircraft reduced altitude from 1,059 ft agl to 43 ft agl in 226 seconds, and the approach was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing was executed on runway 20, whose length is 1,382 m. The threshold speed was slightly below the target at 40 kt. Touchdown occurred 306 m down the runway at 36 kt with a vertical speed of minus 40 fpm, and alignment was reported as perfect. The total landing distance measured 381 m, equivalent to 28 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was also noted as perfect.
In total the flight covered 32 nm, took 20 minutes, and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
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