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Keep the approach speed on target
See Arrival Landing
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 114 kt with 2.3° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 152 kt target, at 154 kt on average.
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 579 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,461 m of runway left; gear up at 76 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,110 fpm on average to 579 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 2,713 m runway.
Rolled from 119 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 21 m at the widest, and lifted off 21 m left. Airborne 29 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare strayed well off the target profile. The flare took all the sink out 89 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 2,520 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 15 m past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 8° right of the track, 147° of bank.
Wind 283° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 89 ft, 123 m before the threshold. Touched down 15 m in, 290 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 1,524 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 15,620 fpm at the flare to 6,120 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 40.0° 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 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.5 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 4.1 m left 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 15 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. It bounced 8 times.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport (LGIR) was a swift process, taking less than a minute to cover the short distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its departure roll on runway 27, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 115 knots. The takeoff distance of 878 meters accounted for 39% of the available runway length, a testament to the aircraft's efficient performance. Local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 16°C, with a gentle headwind of 1 knot at 270°.
As the aircraft climbed out of Heraklion, it began its enroute climb phase, reaching an altitude of 3,404 feet above sea level (asl) after a 2-minute climb from 655 ft asl. This ascent covered a distance of 7 nautical miles, with a total increase in altitude of 2,749 feet. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, maintaining an altitude of 3,404 ft asl for 2 minutes while covering a further 6 nautical miles. A second enroute climb phase began overhead Kastelli, with the aircraft ascending to 5,855 ft asl after a 3-minute climb from 3,247 ft asl. This climb covered a distance of 11 nautical miles, with a total increase in altitude of 2,608 feet.
The final approach to landing was initiated 5 miles west of Males, with the aircraft descending from 1 nautical mile to 1 nautical mile at an altitude of 281 feet above ground level (agl). Touchdown occurred at a speed of 64 knots, with a touchdown rate of -5,719 feet per minute (fpm) and a touchdown distance of 4 meters. The landing rollout was completed in a distance of 8 meters, with the aircraft maintaining an altitude of 5,574 ft asl. The total flight distance was 25 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 7 minutes and a fuel consumption of 0 kilograms.
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