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Departure
Ease the nose up sooner to lift off at 68 kt instead of letting speed build on the ground.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 89 kt, 21 kt above the target liftoff speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 68 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
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 · 13 stages, 11 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 88 kt with 0.5° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 48 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,122 m of runway left.
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.
Plan view the roll down the 1,651 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 3.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 5 kn of crosswind from the 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.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off and wings more than 10° from level.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.5 nm, about 240 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate.
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 4.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 80 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: 4.5° here, which is about 470 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 80 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 198 m right of the centreline at 2.2 nm, then inside it from 1.5 to 1.0 nm, then drifted 40 m left between 1.0 and 0.7 nm, then inside the band from 0.7 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 2.2 nm, where the final began, to 1.9 nm, then fast to 0.5 nm (up to +31 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Poor landing flare
5 kt across from the left, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 59 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, 3° of bank.
Wind 019° at 13 kt · 12 kt tail · 5 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 73 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 36 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 115 m in, 190 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 stayed between 540 fpm and 620 fpm from 28 ft to the runway. The nose came up 4.2° 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 1,524 m of the 1,651 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.1 m left of the centreline and drifted to 13 m left on the rollout, back to 1.3 m left by the end.
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 115 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.66 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 36 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport. The DHC-2 Beaver aircraft took off after a distance of 370 meters, which accounted for 22% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 89 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 32 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 13 knots at a direction of 20 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 5 knots and a headwind of 12 knots.
After takeoff, the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 36. The distance covered during this phase was less than 1 nautical mile in 120 seconds. The left-hand pattern crosswind was also navigated, with the aircraft covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile in just 22 seconds. The pattern downwind turn was completed over a distance of 2 nautical miles, with an angle to the runway of 45 degrees and a descent angle of 3.0 degrees.
The final approach to runway 18 was made from the north, with the aircraft heading at 170.0 degrees and at an altitude of 827 feet above ground level (agl) over a distance of 2 nautical miles. The landing on runway 18 was successful, with a threshold height that was considered good. The threshold speed was slightly below the target speed of 61 knots. The touchdown distance was also good, covering a distance of 112 meters. The touchdown speed was 59 knots, which was considered good. However, the touchdown rate was very hard, with a rate of -564 feet per minute (fpm).
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 4.1 meters. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 31 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 5 knots at a direction of 160 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 5 knots. The total landing distance was 888 meters, which accounted for 54% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned from the centreline by 14.4 meters.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area from the runway, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile in 1 minute. The total flight distance was 3 nautical miles, which was completed in 6 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 6 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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