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Be on speed by the gate
See Arrival Approach
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 75 kt with 7.1° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 106 kt, 8 kt under its 114 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 940 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 90 m of runway left; gear up at 187 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 930 fpm on average to 940 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 610 m runway.
Rolled from 91 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 12 m at the widest, and lifted off 12 m left, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 55 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up, no landing flap set and speed more than 42 kt above the approach speed of 83 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 25 kt above the approach speed of 83 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.3 nm, about 570 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 3.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 160 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 136 m right of the centreline at 3.6 nm, then inside the band from 3.2 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.6 nm, where the final began, to 1.3 nm (up to +84 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
Perfect landing flare
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 75 kt. Touched down with 5° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 004° at 8 kt · 4 kt head · 6 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 70 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.28 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 610 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 23 ft, 51 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 8 ft, 42 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 144 m in, 161 m short of 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 610 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 800 fpm at the flare to 100 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° 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 full 610 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 9.1 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 144 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at EDLH Hamm-Lippewiesen Airfield took approximately one minute, covering less than one nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 06, utilizing 343 meters, or 56% of the runway's length, to achieve liftoff at a speed of 76 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 9°C, with a wind of 9 knots at 8 degrees, resulting in a 7-knot crosswind and a 6-knot headwind.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airfield, it began its enroute climb approximately one mile northeast of Hamm, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The climb from 1,317 feet above sea level to 1,897 feet above sea level, an increase of 580 feet, was achieved in two minutes and covered a distance of four nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise, lasting five minutes and covering 13 nautical miles, before initiating another climb approximately three miles south of Muenster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. This climb, from 1,530 feet above sea level to 2,312 feet above sea level, an increase of 782 feet, was completed in two minutes and covered a distance of four nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 06 at EDLH Hamm-Lippewiesen Airfield was initiated from the southwest, with the aircraft descending from 1,158 feet above ground level to touch down on the runway. The landing distance of 142 meters was within acceptable limits, although the touchdown speed of 75 knots was slightly above the target. The touchdown rate of -96 feet per minute was excellent, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good. Following the landing, the aircraft utilized 321 meters, or 53% of the runway's length, to come to a stop, with a slight misalignment of 11.2 meters from the centerline. The total flight distance was 50 nautical miles, taking approximately 19 minutes, and the aircraft consumed 15 kilograms of fuel.
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