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Departure
Rotate as soon as the aircraft reaches 48 kt rather than letting speed build further.
What happened: You rotated late, lifting off at 78 kt against a 48 kt target, and the climb speed carried fast at 120 kt. A late rotation like this usually leaves the climb speed running fast behind it.
Watch for: Watch airspeed against the 48 kt rotation target.
Arrival
Add power on short final to hold speed at 59 kt, correcting the slow threshold speed before it carries through to the flare.
What happened: Threshold speed was slow at 57 kt against 59 kt, and touchdown followed short of the aim point at 41 m. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries the touchdown short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 59 kt on short final.
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 77 kt with 1.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 120 kt, 28 kt over its 92 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 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 998 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft 74 m past the runway end; then climbing at 940 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. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 752 m runway.
Rolled from 203 m in, drifted 2.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 61 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 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 300 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: right of the centreline all the way, banked until 1.0 nm, fast until 0.9 nm, high until 0.5 nm and sinking too fast until 0.3 nm.
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.
High from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to 0.5 nm (up to 660 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 512 m right of the centreline at 1.3 nm.
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 30 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to 0.9 nm (up to +31 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
The aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
12 kt across from the left, which takes about 15° of crab to hold the centreline at 46 kt. Touched down with 12° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 285° at 14 kt · 7 kt head · 12 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 49 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 373 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 25 ft, 233 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 48 ft, close to the 50 ft target; ballooned 4 ft from 18 ft. Touched down 41 m before the threshold.
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 373 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.
Plan view — the full 373 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
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.
Touched down 41 m short of the threshold. The 2.06 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at EDTH Heubach Airfield took approximately 1 minute, covering less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its departure roll on runway 25, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 78 kt. The takeoff distance of 505 meters accounted for 67% of the runway length. Local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 25 °C, with a wind speed of 11 kt from 276 °, resulting in a 4 kt crosswind and a 10 kt headwind.
As the aircraft climbed away from EDTH Heubach Airfield, it began its enroute climb 1 mile west of the airfield, ascending from 2,365 ft asl to 2,436 ft asl in less than 1 minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The enroute level cruise phase commenced 2 miles south of Iggingen, lasting 3 minutes and covering 6 nautical miles. A subsequent enroute climb phase began 1 mile southeast of Ottenbach, with the aircraft ascending from 2,408 ft asl to 2,892 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 9 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 35 at ED36 Hornberg Airfield from the southeast, descending to an altitude of 657 ft agl at 1 nautical mile from the runway threshold.
The aircraft touched down before the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 46 kt and a firm touchdown rate of -308 fpm. However, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.0 meters from the centreline. The total landing distance of 101 meters accounted for 27% of the runway length, with the runway rollout alignment slightly misaligned by 9.0 meters from the centreline. The total flight distance was 18 nautical miles, taking approximately 9 minutes to complete, and the aircraft used 5 kg of fuel during the flight.
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