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Reduce your height at the threshold
See Arrival Landing
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 82 kt with 6.6° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 108 kt, 6 kt under its 114 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 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 597 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 501 m of runway left; gear up at 395 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,110 fpm on average to 597 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 1,293 m runway.
Rolled from 78 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.4 m left. Airborne 34 % 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.
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: no landing flap set.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.4 to 0.3 nm, then not again: high from 0.3 nm to the threshold.
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.
On the glideslope from 3.1 nm, where the final began, to 0.3 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 90 ft over).
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 3.1 nm, never more than 243 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.1 nm, where the final began, to 2.7 nm (up to +41 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
The flare tracked the target profile exactly. The flare was flown from 86 ft agl over the threshold, well above the target height, so the aircraft was above the profile for most of the landing. Touchdown was 595 m past the threshold. The flare cannot recover height that was never lost - fly the approach down to the aim point and the flare has somewhere to start from.
5 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 70 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 003° at 6 kt · 3 kt head · 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 69 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 s, an average deceleration of 0.20 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 85 ft, 35 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 28 ft. Touched down 595 m in, 290 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 520 fpm at the flare to 170 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° 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 3,984 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.2 m left of the centreline and drifted to 12 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 595 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Reichelsheim Airfield (EDFB), the Bonanza G36 began its takeoff roll on runway 36, covering a distance of 445 meters, which accounted for 36% of the available runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 83 knots, reaching a height of 923 feet above sea level. As the aircraft transitioned to the enroute climb phase, it began to ascend from Reichelsheim, reaching an altitude of 1,371 feet above sea level, a gain of 448 feet in just one minute, while covering a distance of 2 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise phase commenced overhead Florstadt, lasting for 10 minutes and covering a distance of 28 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 07R at Frankfurt Airport (EDDF), descending from an altitude of 533 feet above ground level to touch down on the runway. The threshold height was significantly above the target, and the threshold speed was also well above the target, indicating a stable approach. The touchdown point was 131 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 70 knots and a smooth touchdown rate of -149 feet per minute.
Upon landing, the aircraft covered a total distance of 829 meters, accounting for 21% of the available runway length. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was also slightly off-center. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 22 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 6 knots from a direction of 3 degrees. The aircraft used 10 kilograms of fuel for the entire flight, which covered a total distance of 34 nautical miles and lasted for 14 minutes.
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