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Events
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Departure
Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 45 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.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Select landing flap before the stabilisation gate so it is configured on every approach.
What happened: Landing flap was not set at the stabilisation gate.
Watch for: Flap indicator: landing flap selected before 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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 14 stages, 12 in the score
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 46 kt with 3.6° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 64 kt, 7 kt under its 71 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 772 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,081 m of runway left; then climbing at 860 fpm on average to 772 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 1,401 m runway.
Rolled from 46 m in, drifted 4.9 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 9 % 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.
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: no landing flap set and speed more than 21 kt above the approach speed of 41 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: no landing flap set, glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 12 kt above the approach speed of 41 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.7 nm, about 450 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 2.2 nm, then high to 1.3 nm (up to 510 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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 82 m off 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 21 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 12 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 0.7 nm (up to +43 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.
wheel landing
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 182° at 2 kt · 1 kt head · 1 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 39 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 6 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 1,234 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 47 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 17 ft. Touched down 281 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 1,234 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 210 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.9° 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 1,234 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 0.8 m of it down 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 281 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Savage Cub taxied to runway 34 at 1Q2 Spaulding and commenced the take-off run, covering 155 m which represents 11 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 47 kt. Ambient conditions were 7 °C with a wind from 180° at 1 kt, no cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
Climb began directly overhead the departure airport, with the aircraft accelerating from 5,907 ft asl to 6,300 ft asl, an altitude gain of 393 ft in 1 minute while traversing less than 1 nm.
The first cruise segment started approximately 1 nm north-east of 1Q2 Spaulding and was maintained for 11 minutes, during which 16 nm were covered.
Descent was initiated 4 nm north-west of Susanville, descending from 6,992 ft asl to 6,266 ft asl, a loss of 725 ft over 2 minutes while covering 2 nm.
A second level cruise commenced 2 nm north-west of Susanville, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 3 nm.
Final approach to runway 11 at KSVE Susanville Municipal Airport was flown from the north-west on a heading of 130.0° at 4 nm and 1,727 ft agl.
Landing on runway 11 was executed with a threshold speed of 41 kt, slightly below the target. Touchdown occurred 279 m down the runway at 37 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 98 fpm. The aircraft aligned perfectly with the runway centreline; total landing distance was 360 m, representing 29 % of the 1,234 m runway. Weather at the time mirrored departure conditions: 7 °C, wind 1 kt from 180°, 1 kt cross-wind and 1 kt head-wind.
Rollout proceeded with perfect runway alignment and the aircraft decelerated within the remaining runway length, confirming the touchdown distance and alignment reported.
In total the flight covered 26 nm, taking 19 and used 0 kg of fuel.
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