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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
High on final, the pilot dives to the aim point, converting altitude directly into airspeed, and arrives on-glideslope but 15 knots fast. The vertical profile looks fine; the speed trace does not. It is one of the reasons the stabilised-approach concept - configured, on speed, on path by a gate, commonly 1,000 ft in IMC and 500 ft in VMC - checks speed and path together, and why the tolerances airlines use are asymmetric, typically allowing more on the fast side than the slow, because slow kills faster than fast.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 100 kt with 3.3° 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 1,027 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,168 m of runway left; then climbing at 910 fpm on average to 1,027 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 2,593 m runway.
Rolled from 598 m in, drifted 2 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 44 % 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 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 420 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 471 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.3 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 90 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 654 m in, 349 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 500 fpm at 40 ft to 50 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° 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 2,593 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.9 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 5.6 m right at the widest.
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.
Touched down 654 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took approximately 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cockspur C510, then departed from runway 26 at Linz-Hörsching Airport / Vogler Air Base, also known as LOWL. The takeoff distance was 560 meters, which accounted for 22% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 101 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 0 knots from a direction of 228 degrees. There was no crosswind or headwind. As the aircraft took off, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead the town of Oftering in Austria. The climb involved an increase in altitude from 2,042 feet above sea level to 3,726 feet above sea level, a rise of 1,684 feet in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which began overhead the town of Scharten in Austria. This phase lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 8 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its enroute descent, which began 1 mile northwest of the town of Puchenau in Austria. The descent involved a decrease in altitude from 3,457 feet above sea level to 1,675 feet above sea level, a drop of 1,782 feet in 4 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 26 at LOWL was made from the east, with the aircraft heading in a direction of 263.0 degrees at an altitude of 3 nautical miles and 705 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 26, which had a length of 2,593 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was well above the target speed at 110 knots.
The touchdown point was 223 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 91 knots, which was considered fast. However, the touchdown rate was excellent at -50 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 3.9 meters. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 2 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 0 knots from a direction of 234 degrees, with no crosswind or headwind.
The total landing distance was 1,108 meters, which accounted for 43% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The total flight distance was 24 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 14 minutes. The aircraft used 81 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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