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Get the gear down before the gate
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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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 85 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 366 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,412 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,040 fpm on average to 366 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 2,116 m runway.
Rolled from 91 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.5 m left. Airborne 21 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up and no landing flap set.
At the 500 ft gate: gear still up, no landing flap set, centreline more than 1° off and speed above the approach speed.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap all the way, gear up until 1.2 nm, left of the centreline until 0.7 nm, low 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 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 90 ft under).
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 from 4 nm to 1.9 nm, then drifted 113 m left between 1.9 and 0.7 nm, then inside the band from 0.7 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
The aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 272° at 2 kt · 2 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.
From 81 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.30 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 1,274 m of the approach.
Began the flare late, at 9 ft; crossed the threshold at 52 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 109 m before the threshold.
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 1,274 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.
Plan view — the full 1,274 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
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 109 m short of the threshold. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Westerland Sylt Airport took approximately 1 minute, covering less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll commenced on runway 14, with the aircraft clearing the runway threshold at 481 meters, representing 23% of the runway's length. Liftoff speed was achieved at 86 knots, as the aircraft lifted off into the local weather conditions, characterized by a temperature of 13°C and a wind of 8 knots at 160°.
As the aircraft transitioned into the enroute climb phase, it began ascending from 215 feet above sea level to 1,096 feet, an increase of 880 feet, over a distance of 2 nautical miles, within a 1-minute timeframe. This climb phase was initiated overhead Tinnum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 8 minutes and covered 21 nautical miles, commencing 1 mile southwest of Keitum. Subsequent enroute descent and level cruise phases were conducted, with the aircraft descending from 2,193 feet to 1,608 feet, a decrease of 584 feet, over a distance of 4 nautical miles, within a 2-minute timeframe. The final approach to runway 11R at Flensburg-Schäferhaus Airport was initiated from the west, with the aircraft touching down before the threshold at a speed of 79 knots, resulting in a touchdown rate of -50 feet per minute. However, the touchdown speed was slightly above the recommended value.
The total landing distance was 208 meters, representing 20% of the runway's length, with the runway touchdown position being misaligned by 8.5 meters from the centerline. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned by 8.5 meters from the centerline. The total flight distance was 38 nautical miles, taking approximately 15 minutes, and the aircraft consumed 13 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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