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Departure
Level the wings with coordinated aileron to hold bank angle near zero during the initial climb, starting from 13°.
What happened: Bank angle was elevated during the initial climb and excess bank usually persists into the second climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, wings level with bank angle near zero degrees.
Arrival
Close the throttles earlier on final so you cross the threshold at 73 kt rather than carrying excess speed.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 92 kt, 19 kt above the 73 kt target, and the nose was then only raised 7.8° in the flare, taking out little of the sink. Crossing the threshold fast like this usually carries extra energy into a flare that barely arrests the sink, and that combination usually ends in a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 73 kt at the threshold.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 17 stages, 14 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 94 kt against the 93 kt rotate speed, the nose rising at 2.9° a second.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 45 m in, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline. Airborne 53 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to 232 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 246 m of runway left; then climbing at 970 fpm on average to 232 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
Over the threshold
The flare wandered off the target profile
The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 7.8° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 105 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 96 ft, 46 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft. Touched down 105 m in, 200 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 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 3,140 fpm at the flare to 1,080 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 7.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 94 kt, 21 kt over the 73 kt approach speed, and 92 kt at touchdown.
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 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.3 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.6 m right at the widest. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° left of the track, 4.3° of bank.
Wind 269° at 2 kt · 1 kt head · 1 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 105 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1,077 fpm arrival was firm.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 100 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.54 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.
The rest of the report
The Lancair Legacy departed from runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield. The take-off roll used 655 m, which is 59 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 80 kt. Local weather at departure was 16 °C with wind 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl lasted 12 seconds, averaging 905 fpm and reaching 112 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,845 ft asl to 5,841 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 5 nm and passing overhead Cranves-Sales.
Cruise continued at 6,800 ft asl for 21 minutes, covering 74 nm while over Peillonnex. A subsequent climb from 7,155 ft asl to 16,083 ft asl took 14 minutes over 42 nm, beginning 1 mile north of Passy and including a brief level-off at 8,500 ft asl. Level flight at 16,300 ft asl followed for 2 minutes, covering 4 nm, starting 3 miles south-east of Les Houches.
Descent began from 16,512 ft asl to 5,342 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 28 nm, again starting 3 miles south-east of Les Houches.
During the approach to the runway 1 mile north-west of Cordon, the aircraft descended from 101 ft agl to 0 ft agl, a loss of 101 ft in 1 second. The flare was described as very poor, with the aircraft ballooning in the flare. A second flare description follows: the aircraft descended from 97 ft agl to 0 ft agl, a loss of 97 ft in 0 seconds, and the flare was judged good, with little round-out.
Touchdown occurred 1 mile north-west of Cordon at a speed of 92 kt, which was noted as too fast. The vertical rate on touchdown was very heavy at minus 1,078 fpm. Touchdown distance was good at 105 m. Local weather at landing was 15 °C with wind 2 kt from 272°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind. No bounce was observed on touchdown.
The landing rollout continued at an altitude of 5,076 ft asl and covered 163 m.
The total flight covered 154 nm, lasted 57 minutes and consumed 38 kg of fuel.
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