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Departure
Ease the nose up sooner to lift off at 60 kt instead of letting speed build on the ground.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 71 kt, 11 kt above the target liftoff speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 60 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 21 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 21 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 21 ft to touchdown.
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 14 stages, 13 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 71 kt with 6.2° 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 990 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,139 m of runway left; then climbing at 800 fpm on average to 990 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 2,376 m runway.
Rolled from 964 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 5.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.9 m right, in 14 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 42 % 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 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, 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: high all the way, right of the centreline all the way, no landing flap until 2.4 nm, gear up until 2.2 nm, fast until 2.2 nm and sinking too fast until 0.7 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 4 nm to the threshold (up to 1,220 ft over).
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 1,295 m right of the centreline.
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 41 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.9 nm, then fast to 2.2 nm (up to +54 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
Very poor landing flare
12 kt across from the left, which takes about 11° of crab to hold the centreline at 61 kt. Touched down with the nose 17° into wind, 2° of bank.
Wind 060° at 14 kt · 5 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 53 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 96 ft, 46 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 499 m in, 194 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.
The sink went from 1,820 fpm at 111 ft to 170 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 9.2° 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 first 1,524 m of the 2,376 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.2 m right of the centreline and drifted to 17 m left on the rollout.
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 499 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Tecnam P2006T MKII aircraft departed from runway 31 at LIPR Federico Fellini International Airport, covering a takeoff distance of 42 meters, which is 2% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 71 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 16 knots at 59 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 15 knots and a tailwind of 6 knots.
As the aircraft climbed, it started enroute climb 1 mile south east of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The climb began at an altitude of 1,043 feet above sea level and reached 2,650 feet above sea level, an increase of 1,607 feet in just 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles.
Later, the aircraft initiated an enroute descent 1 mile west of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The descent took place from 2,708 feet above sea level to 1,642 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,066 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 13 at LIPR Federico Fellini International Airport was made from the north west, heading 127.0 degrees at 2 nautical miles and 1,569 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 13, which has a length of 2,376 meters, was successful, with the touchdown point being 56 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed was 61 knots, which was good, and the touchdown rate was excellent at -88 feet per minute.
However, the threshold height at 112 feet above ground level was excessively over target, and the threshold speed was well above target at 81 knots. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, but the runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 21.4 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 666 meters, which is 28% of the runway.
The total flight distance was 8 nautical miles, taking 7 minutes, and the aircraft used 3 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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