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Arrival
Add power on short final to hold 65 kt at the threshold rather than letting speed decay.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 48 kt against a target of 65 kt, below reference speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, hold 65 kt down to the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
Read more in How to Taxi AnywhereStart to finish · 15 stages, 13 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 51 kt, and lifted off at 55 kt 1.6 s later, the nose coming up at 4.4° a second.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 312 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 685 m of runway left; then climbing at 620 fpm on average to 312 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.
Plan view the roll down the 1,101 m runway.
Rolled from 25 m in, never more than 1.3 m off the centreline. Airborne 26 % 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 threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Right-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 0.8 nm out at 76 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Low: turned crosswind at 394 ft, below the 500 ft minimum.
Each lap slightly wider and higher than the last, because you're unconsciously using the previous lap as your reference instead of the runway and the numbers. Invisible lap to lap, unmistakable across ten. This is the failure that only measurement catches, because your memory of lap three is gone by lap eight.
Read more in Pattern WorkWide: the downwind was 1.6 nm out at 76 kt, where about 0.8 nm suits that speed.
The bomber pattern. A downwind flown so wide that final becomes a two-mile straight-in, quietly converting your circuit session back into the ILS-style approach you were trying to escape. The symptom is that your final leg takes over a minute and you're stabilised with time to spare, every lap. The practice value lives in the compressed judgement of a proper-sized circuit, and a huge one launders it away.
Read more in Pattern WorkGood: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm (up to 370 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 1.3 nm, never more than 194 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.
The rest of the report
The flight was conducted in a Robin DR400. After taxiing from the parking area to the runway for 9 minutes covering 6 nm, the aircraft departed from runway 12 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield. Take-off used 292 m of runway, which is 27 % of the available length, and rotation was achieved at 51 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 29 seconds, averaging 645 fpm and reaching 62 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then entered a right-hand circuit for runway 12. The downwind leg was 3 nm long and was flown in 155 seconds at 960 ft agl. The base leg was less than 1 nm and was completed in 36 seconds.
During final approach to runway 12, the aircraft descended from 794 ft agl to -12 ft agl in 68 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, centreline, speed and wings level; the glideslope check was not met.
Landing was made on runway 12, which is 1,101 m long, with a good threshold height. The threshold speed was 48 kt, well below target. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 101 m down the runway at 44 kt with a descent rate of minus 73 fpm and perfect runway alignment. No bounce was observed. Local weather at landing was temperature 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 269°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
The total flight covered 15 nm, lasted 9 minutes and consumed 2 kg of fuel.
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