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Departure
Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 70 kt, holding a steady rotation rate rather than snatching the controls.
What happened: On the takeoff roll the aircraft bounced before becoming fully airborne.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: a smooth, continuous pitch-up through liftoff with no secondary bounce.
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Arrival
Use coordinated rudder and aileron on the crosswind leg to correct heading drift promptly and keep the wings level on track.
What happened: On the crosswind leg the heading drifted -7.2° off the intended track, and a drift like this usually carries through to extra bank being held at touchdown, which this flight saw at 2.1°.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level, track held steady throughout the crosswind leg.
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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Events
Events
The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,224 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,224 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 150 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Extra 330 departed EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield from runway 18, achieving liftoff after a ground roll of 285 m, which represented 23 % of the available runway. The aircraft reached a liftoff speed of 78 kt under local conditions of 19 °C, wind 14 kt from 229°, a cross-wind component of 11 kt and a head-wind component of 9 kt.
During the approach the pilot entered a left-hand pattern on runway 18, covering less than 1 nm in 27 seconds for the entry and 1 nm in 25 seconds on the crosswind leg. The downwind turn spanned 2 nm with a 72.9° angle to the runway, followed by a 2 nm downwind leg completed in 53 seconds. The base-leg turn also measured 2 nm at a 57.9° angle, after which a 1 nm base leg was flown in 41 seconds, and the final turn covered less than 1 nm in 43 seconds. The final approach descended from 265 ft AGL to 28 ft AGL in 37 seconds and satisfied the stabilisation gates.
Landing was executed on runway 18, whose length is 1 224 m, with a threshold speed recorded slightly below the target at 66 kt. Touchdown occurred 149 m down the runway at a speed of 55 kt and a vertical rate of minus 108 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 8.1 m from the centreline, while the total landing distance measured 372 m, representing 30 % of the runway.
Rollout continued with a slight centreline deviation of 11.4 m and the aircraft came to a stop within the remaining runway length. Weather at the time of landing was 18 °C, wind 12 kt from 228°, a cross-wind component of 10 kt and a head-wind component of 8 kt.
In total the flight covered 7 nm, required approximately 4 minutes of flight time and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
The Extra 330 completed the final approach to runway 18 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield, descending from 265 ft AGL to 28 ft AGL in 37 seconds while meeting the stabilisation-gate criteria; local conditions were 18 °C with a wind from 228° at 12 kt, comprising a 10-kt crosswind component and an 8-kt headwind.
At threshold the aircraft presented a good threshold height and a threshold speed that was slightly below the target at 66 kt, indicating the speed was within a narrow margin of the expected value.
Touchdown occurred 149 m down the runway at a speed of 55 kt, both described as good, with a smooth vertical rate of minus 108 fpm; the touchdown point was misaligned by 8.1 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total distance of 372 m, representing 30 % of the 1 224 m runway, and the aircraft’s alignment during rollout was slightly misaligned by 11.4 m from the centreline.
Improving centreline tracking during the flare and rollout will reduce the observed 8.1-m and 11.4-m deviations, and confirming threshold speed is precisely on target will help maintain the strong overall score of 89.2 %.
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