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Departure
Correct the drift with small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway, holding the centreline through the roll.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted 7.5 m off the centreline, and the aircraft held a bank angle of 6° through the first climb segment; drifting off centreline on the roll usually carries into a wandering heading through the second climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: runway heading held steady through the climb.
A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 22 stages, 20 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 63 kt with 2.3° 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 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 993 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 582 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,010 fpm on average to 993 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 1,193 m runway.
Rolled from 311 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 7.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.5 m left, in 16 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 32 % 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 4 nm to 2.5 nm, then not again: fast from 2.5 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 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 150 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 6× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then drifted 17 m left between 0.5 and 0.3 nm, then inside the band from 0.3 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +32 kt).
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
17 kt across from the right, which takes about 15° of crab to hold the centreline at 67 kt. Touched down with the nose 17° into wind, 6° of bank.
Wind 020° at 18 kt · 6 kt head · 17 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 36 ft, 14 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 411 m in, 106 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.
From 34 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 160 fpm before coming down at 280 fpm to touch. The nose came up 4.7° 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 2,376 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 15 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 13 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 411 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.27 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Tecnam P2006T MKII aircraft departed from runway 08 at LIDR Ravenna Airport, covering a takeoff distance of 78 meters, which is 7% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 64 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 14 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 20 knots at 22 degrees.
As the aircraft began its enroute climb, it started from 1,016 feet above sea level and reached 1,416 feet in less than a minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. This initial climb phase was followed by a level cruise that lasted for 3 minutes and covered 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb phase, this time from 1,885 feet to 7,003 feet, an increase of 5,118 feet in 7 minutes, covering 13 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued to alternate between level cruise and climb phases, with notable climbs from 6,971 feet to 6,448 feet in 2 minutes, covering 4 nautical miles, and from 5,753 feet to 2,966 feet in 5 minutes, covering 10 nautical miles. The final descent phase began overhead Gradara, Italy, where the aircraft descended from 2,698 feet to 1,437 feet in 2 minutes, covering 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 31 at LIPR Federico Fellini International Airport was made from the south east, with a heading of 308.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,402 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown speed of 67 knots and a touchdown rate of -178 feet per minute. However, the touchdown point was 120 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 14.8 meters from the centerline.
The total landing distance was 688 meters, which is 29% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 23.1 meters from the centerline. The total flight distance was 78 nautical miles, taking 43 minutes, and the aircraft used 20 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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