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Work on the flare
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Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 93 kt with 5.6° of pitch.
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 764 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 285 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,150 fpm on average to 764 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 2,237 m runway.
Rolled from 1,150 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 13 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.4 m left. Airborne 77 % of the way down the runway, past 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.
The final from 4 nm.
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 10 ft below 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +19 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
11 kt across from the left, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 97 kt. Touched down with 6° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 230° at 20 kt · 17 kt head · 11 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 48 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 604 m in, 299 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 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 260 fpm at 47 ft to 120 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,524 m of the 2,643 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 6 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.
Touched down 604 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.29 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cessna 414A, then departed from runway 07 at ENKB Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget. The takeoff distance was 572 meters, which accounted for 26% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 94 knots, and the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 6°C, a wind speed of 5 knots at 347°, with a crosswind of 5 knots and a headwind of 1 knot.
Following the takeoff, the aircraft began its enroute climb, which started 1 mile east of ENKB Kristiansund Airport. The climb took 16 minutes and covered 40 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from 991 feet above sea level to 22,523 feet above sea level, an increase of 21,532 feet. The enroute level cruise then began 13 miles north of ENLB Bjorli Airfield Bismo, lasting 67 minutes and covering 268 nautical miles.
The enroute descent started 25 miles northwest of Skagen, Denmark, and took 14 minutes to descend from 23,766 feet above sea level to 1,967 feet above sea level, a decrease of 21,799 feet. The aircraft then began another enroute level cruise, this time overhead EK02 Stagsted, which lasted 2 minutes and covered 3 nautical miles. The final descent started 2 miles north of Vester Hassing, Denmark, and took 2 minutes to descend from 1,984 feet above sea level to 1,284 feet above sea level, a decrease of 701 feet.
The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 26R at EKYT Aalborg Airport, approaching from the east at a heading of 263.0° and 4 nautical miles from the airport. The landing was made on runway 26R, which had a length of 2,643 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was too high at 103 knots. The touchdown point was 264 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 97 knots, which was also too fast. However, the touchdown rate was smooth at -125 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.7 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned by 9.1 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 18°C, a wind speed of 20 knots at 230°, with a crosswind of 11 knots and a headwind of 17 knots. The total landing distance was 908 meters, which accounted for 34% of the runway.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 378 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 107 minutes. The aircraft used 224 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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