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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 8.1 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: six 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: off the centreline.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,529 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 195 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
A C750 aircraft took off on runway 21 at LESU Pirineus - la Seu d'Urgel Airport. After 5 minutes of taxiing and covering less than 1 nm, the aircraft departed. With a takeoff distance of 752 m, the aircraft used 59% of the runway before lifting off at a speed of 135 kt. The local weather conditions at takeoff were moderate, with a temperature of 18 °C and a wind of 12 kt at 300 °.
En route, the aircraft began to climb from 3,183 ft asl, reaching altitudes of up to 44,870 ft asl. This impressive climb was achieved in 18 minutes and covered a distance of 114 nm. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a cruise phase that lasted 31 minutes, covering 239 nm of distance. The aircraft levelled off over the city of Puebla de Benifasar, situated in the Comunitat Valenciana region of Spain.
During the cruise phase, the aircraft descended from 45,078 ft asl to 4,058 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering a distance of 117 nm. This descent was initiated 4 miles north west of Alamedilla, in the Andalusia region of Spain. The aircraft then leveled off again for a brief period before entering a final descent phase. Over the course of 5 minutes, the aircraft covered 19 nm of distance.
As the aircraft approached its destination, Gibraltar Airport (LXGB), it began its final approach to runway 09. With a runway length of 1,529 m, the aircraft touched down at a distance of 193 m from the threshold. The touchdown speed was slightly below the target, at 110 kt, but the touchdown distance and speed were satisfactory, with a touchdown speed of 106 kt.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were warm, with a temperature of 23 °C and a wind of 17 kt at 90 °. The crosswind was moderate, at 1 kt, while the headwind was substantial, at 17 kt. The aircraft executed a smooth rollout, with good alignment, before taxiing to the parking area.
The total flight distance was 507 nm, which was achieved in 88 minutes of flight time. The aircraft used a significant amount of fuel, at 1,228 kg.
The aircraft, denoted as C750, has successfully landed at LXGB Gibraltar Airport, but with some minor discrepancies recorded in the landing performance. The final approach to the runway 09 from the west was initiated at an altitude of 366 feet above ground level (agl) and a distance of 1 nautical mile from the runway.
During the final approach, the aircraft maintained a heading of 89.0 degrees, and touched down on the runway with a speed of 106 knots (kt), which was good according to the target threshold speed. However, the aircraft's speed during the threshold phase was slightly below the target at 110 kt. The landing process itself was considered good, with the aircraft touchdown distance of 193 meters being well within acceptable limits.
Despite the overall good landing performance, there were some minor issues identified. The touchdown rate of -433 feet per minute (fpm) was reported to be hard, indicating that the aircraft may have experienced a relatively high deceleration during the landing roll. Furthermore, the runway touchdown position was found to be slightly misaligned from the centreline by 5.4 meters, although this was not a critical issue.
The local weather conditions during the landing were reported as good, with a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius and a wind of 17 knots at 90 degrees. The crosswind component was minimal at 1 kt, and the headwind was significant at 17 kt. The total landing distance of 720 meters accounted for 47% of the runway length, indicating that the aircraft touched down relatively close to the threshold.
The runway rollout phase was considered very good in terms of alignment, suggesting that the aircraft's brakes were applied smoothly and consistently. Overall, the landing performance of C750 aircraft was satisfactory, but the pilots may need to make adjustments to their approach and landing technique to address the issues identified during the landing.
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