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Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 77 kt, holding a steady rotation rate rather than snatching the controls.
What happened: On the takeoff roll the aircraft bounced before becoming fully airborne.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: a smooth, continuous pitch-up through liftoff with no secondary bounce.
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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed back to 73 kt well before the gate.
What happened: Approach was fast through the stabilisation gate, and the threshold was crossed at 92 kt against the 73 kt target. Carrying that extra speed in usually carries the touchdown long, which it did here at 509 m against the 457 m target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 73 kt at the threshold
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 · 12 stages, 10 scored
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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: seven 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. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate 2,211 fpm, more than the glideslope needed, glideslope 6.4° against the runway's 3°, centreline 1.6° off, against a 1° limit and speed 64 kt FAST on the reference speed of 73 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,762 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 509 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed KTTN Trenton Mercer Airport on runway 06, employing a takeoff run of 683 m which represented 37 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 88 kt. Ambient conditions were 21 °C with a wind from 225° at 3 kt, no cross-wind component and a 3 kt tailwind.
Climb commenced over Ewing, New Jersey, with the airplane ascending from 404 ft asl to 2,379 ft asl, a gain of 1,975 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 4 nm.
Level cruise began approximately 1 nm north of Yardley, Pennsylvania and was maintained for 25 minutes, during which 64 nm were flown.
The final approach to runway 13 at KABE Lehigh Valley International Airport was executed from the north-west, on a heading of 125.0° at 2 nm and 1,754 ft agl.
Landing on runway 13 was performed with a runway length of 1,762 m; the threshold speed was recorded at 92 kt. Touchdown occurred 73 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 74 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 79 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 4.0 m from the centreline. Local weather reported 20 °C, wind from 225° at 3 kt, a 3 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt tailwind. Total landing distance measured 1,059 m, equivalent to 60 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was noted to be slightly off centreline by 10.0 m.
Taxi-in to the parking area required less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 71 nm, lasted 32 minutes and consumed 57 kg of fuel.
Aircraft Commander 114, scoring 94.0%, executed the final approach to runway 13 at KABE Lehigh Valley International Airport from the north-west, tracking a heading of 125.0° at 2 nm and 1,754 ft agl. The approach was assessed as unstable at the 1,000 ft gate, with a sink rate too high and the aircraft off the glideslope.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good height, but the threshold speed was well above target at 92 kt. The touchdown point was recorded 73 m beyond the touchdown zone.
Touchdown occurred at a speed of 74 kt, which was too fast, while the vertical rate was excellent at minus 79 fpm. The touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.0 m from the centreline.
During rollout the aircraft remained slightly misaligned by 10.0 m from the centreline. Total landing distance was 1,059 m, representing 60 % of the 1,762 m runway.
Reduce the threshold and touchdown speeds toward their targets to improve alignment with the aim point and minimise excess runway usage. Fine-tune the flare timing to achieve a smoother touchdown while maintaining centreline tracking.
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