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Arrival
Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 457 m instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 215 m past the target, landing at 672 m against the 457 m aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 117 kt, on the 117 kt target, and lifted off at 126 kt 2.1 s later, the nose coming up at 2.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 167 kt, 12 kt under its 179 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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 933 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,272 m of runway left; gear up at 94 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,270 fpm on average to 933 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 3,227 m runway.
Rolled from 107 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.9 m right. Airborne 22 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.4 nm, about 190 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 200 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 8× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.2 nm, then drifted 46 m left between 1.2 and 0.4 nm, then inside the band from 0.4 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 57 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 34 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +56 kt on the approach speed of 114 kt.
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 flare tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 672 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 110 kt. Touched down with the nose 3° into wind, wings level.
Wind 280° at 4 kt · 2 kt head · 4 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.
Side view — the last 2,610 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 53 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft. Touched down 672 m in, 367 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 2,610 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 600 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.7° 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 first 2,610 m of the 3,472 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.6 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.8 m left by the end of 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.
Touched down 672 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.13 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Honda HA-420 taxied from the parking area to runway 35 at UBBB Heydar Aliyev International Airport; the taxi-out required 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 35, achieving a takeoff distance of 728 m (23 % of the runway) and lifting off at 126 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 28 °C, wind 18 kt at 10°, with a 3 kt crosswind and an 18 kt headwind.
Enroute climb began 1 mile north of UBBB, climbing from 998 ft asl to 23 620 ft asl, an increase of 22 621 ft accomplished in 9 minutes while covering 35 nm.
Level cruise started 7 miles west of Haci Zeynalabdin, lasted 2 minutes and spanned 8 nm.
Descent was initiated 12 miles north-east of Qobustan, descending from 24 010 ft asl to 2 601 ft asl, a loss of 21 409 ft in 15 minutes over 69 nm.
Final approach to runway 34 at UBBQ Gabala International Airport involved a descent from 1 519 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 106 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 34, which is 3 472 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 121 kt, noted as well above target. Touchdown was 586 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 110 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 88 fpm; the touchdown point was offset by 4.6 m from the centreline. Local weather at the time was temperature 24 °C, wind 4 kt at 280°, with a 4 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
The total landing distance measured 2 860 m, representing 82 % of the runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good.
After rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area; this taxi-in took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 121 nm, took 31 minutes, and used 214 kg of fuel.
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