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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 50 kt, then pitch for 112 kt in the climb.
What happened: You started the rotation at 72 kt, 22 kt past the 50 kt rotation speed, and that extra speed usually carries into the climb, which was 25 kt fast as well.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 50 kt at rotation, 112 kt in the climb
Arrival
Bring the power back earlier on the approach so you are at 54 kt by the stabilisation gate, well before final.
What happened: This flight was already fast at the stabilisation gate, at 94 kt, and that excess speed was still showing up over the threshold and at touchdown. Carrying too much speed that early in the approach usually rides all the way down through the threshold and into the touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 54 kt at the stabilisation gate.
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, 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.
Rotated at 72 kt, 22 kt above the 50 kt target, and lifted off at 77 kt 1.1 s later, the nose coming up at 5.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 137 kt, 25 kt over its 112 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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 777 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,068 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 970 fpm on average to 777 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 3,986 m runway.
Rolled from 492 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 18 m at the widest, and lifted off 18 m left, in 8 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 14 % 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: seven checks where the approach path is 300 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 300 ft gate: no landing flap set, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 13 kt above the approach speed of 54 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap all the way, fast all the way and left of the centreline until 0.9 nm.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 280 ft above 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. 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 474 m left of the centreline at 1.6 nm, then inside the band from 0.9 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 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +45 kt).
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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 2.7 points, for the nose going up and down 3 times.
7 kt across from the right, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 66 kt. Touched down with the nose 13° into wind, 3° of bank.
Wind 212° at 14 kt · 11 kt head · 7 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 59 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 6 s, an average deceleration of 0.25 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 1,224 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 21 ft, 76 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 8 ft, 42 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 227 m in, 77 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 1,224 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 590 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.8° 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 full 1,224 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 13 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.4 m right by the end of 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.
The 227 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed from runway 25C at EDDF Frankfurt Airport. Take-off was performed with a distance of 585 m, which was 15 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 72 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 12 °C, wind 14 kt from 212°, giving a crosswind component of 8 kt and a head-wind component of 11 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 44 seconds, averaging 855 fpm and reaching 145 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 1,005 ft asl to 1,635 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 2 nm, beginning 1 mile south of Kelsterbach.
Level flight was held at 1,800 ft asl for 11 minutes, covering 26 nm, starting overhead Kelsterbach.
Descent began from 1,738 ft asl to 670 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 3 nm, starting 2 miles east of Reichelsheim.
Final approach to runway 18 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield descended from 633 ft agl to -115 ft agl in 64 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were: gear down - met; sink rate - met; on glideslope - met; wings level - met. The checks not met were: landing flap - not met; on centreline - not met; on speed - not met. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 1,034 ft agl with an airspeed of 117 kt.
Landing was made on runway 18, whose length is 1,224 m. The threshold height was good. Threshold speed was 79 kt, noted as excessively high. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 227 m down the runway at a speed of 66 kt, noted as excessively fast, with a vertical rate of -91 fpm, described as excellent. The touchdown point was misaligned by 13.0 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 380 m, which is 31 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
The total flight covered 34 nm, lasted 14 minutes and used 4 kg of fuel. Local weather at the destination was temperature 12 °C, wind 14 kt from 212°, crosswind 8 kt, head-wind 11 kt.
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