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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 50 kt, not after it.
What happened: You started the rotation at 65 kt, 15 kt past the 50 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 50 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to stop the drift as soon as it starts in the flare.
What happened: On the landing you drifted 18 m off the centreline, and that kind of lateral drift usually carries through to a touchdown point 18 m off centreline and into a rollout that is still skewed off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Heading indicator: track straight down the extended runway centreline through touchdown and rollout.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 65 kt, 15 kt above the 50 kt target, and lifted off at 76 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 1.6° 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 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 998 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 2,736 m of runway left; then climbing at 260 fpm on average to 998 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 3,595 m runway.
Rolled from 231 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.4 m left. Airborne 13 % 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.
Left-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 where you joined to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 1.4 nm out at 135 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°.
Good: full marks on the crosswind leg.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Late: turned base with the threshold 16° 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 2.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 60 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.
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 473 m left of the centreline at 2.4 nm, then inside the band from 1.8 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 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +54 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
The flare held the target profile well. Crossing the threshold 14 kt above target, the flare began at 7 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 313 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 355° at 4 kt · 4 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 56 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 7 ft. Touched down 313 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 1,524 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 160 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at 3 ft, then back up to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.3° 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 3,595 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 18 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 20 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 313 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The JMB VL-3 Sprint departed from runway 34 at LOWW Vienna International Airport. Takeoff was performed over a distance of 505 m, which is 14 % of the runway length, and rotation occurred at 65 kt. Local weather at departure was 7 °C with wind 5 kt from 355°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 5 kt head-wind component.
During the initial climb the aircraft rose to 400 ft agl in 226 seconds, averaging 360 fpm and reaching 139 kt at the top of the climb. The flight then entered a left-hand circuit for runway 34. The circuit lasted 8 minutes; the downwind leg was 12 nm long and was flown in 324 seconds at 960 ft agl, followed by a base leg of less than 1 nm completed in 4 seconds.
On final approach to runway 34 the descent was from 315 ft agl to -394 ft agl in 103 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway showed gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level were met; landing flap and speed were not met. The approach was not scored on a circuit, the stabilisation gate is shown for reference only.
Landing was made on runway 34, whose length is 3 595 m and which had a good threshold height. The threshold speed was 68 kt, noted as too high. The flare was described as great but started late. Touchdown occurred 313 m from the threshold at a speed of 58 kt, which was too fast, with a vertical rate of -153 fpm, considered good. The touchdown point was misaligned by 18.0 m from the centreline. No bounce was observed. The total landing roll was 569 m, representing 16 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was misaligned by 17.7 m from the centreline.
The overall flight covered 35 nm in 13 minutes and consumed 3 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 7 °C with wind 4 kt from 360°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 4 kt head-wind component.
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