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Departure
Use rudder to hold the heading within -2.2° in the first climb, correcting drift as soon as it starts.
What happened: The climb drifted -2.2° off heading, and a wider bank excursion to 4.8° average followed soon after; a heading drift in the first climb usually carries into a larger bank excursion in the second.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level and steady heading through the climb
Arrival
Use aileron to level the wings and hold the upwind wing low only enough to track the centreline before touchdown.
What happened: At touchdown the wings were not level, with an average bank angle of 7.5°.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator and keep wings level through touchdown.
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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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, 7 kt below the 58 kt target, and lifted off at 58 kt 0.9 s later, the nose coming up at 6.1° 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 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 224 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 858 m of runway left; then climbing at 540 fpm on average to 224 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 1,293 m runway.
Rolled from 46 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.3 m left, in 9 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 15 % 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: five 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.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
The approach, gate by gate
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare wandered off the target profile. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 4 times on the way down. Touchdown was 66 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 5° left of the track, 4° of bank.
Wind 082° at 9 kt · 9 kt head · 2 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 37 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 2 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 45 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 33 ft. Touched down 66 m in, 239 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 710 fpm at the flare to 430 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.5° 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 7.3 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.4 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 66 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.11 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The CubCrafters CC19 XCub departed EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield on runway 36. The take-off roll was 202 m, 16 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 51 kt. Local weather was 5 °C with a wind of 10 kt from 104°, a 10 kt crosswind and a 3 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 24 seconds, averaging 499 fpm and reaching 106 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 486 ft asl to 2,178 ft asl in 2 minutes while covering 4 nm, passing overhead Reichelsheim.
Cruise was level at 2,700 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 10 nm, beginning about 1 mile northwest of Ranstadt. Descent began from 3,036 ft asl to 2,318 ft asl in 2 minutes over 3 nm, starting about 1 mile southeast of Schotten.
On final approach to Hoherodskopf Airfield the aircraft descended from 462 ft agl to 24 ft agl in 88 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope and speed, but the landing flap check was not met. The final flap position was 1 at 364 ft agl and the speed was 60 kt.
During the touchdown phase the aircraft descended from 45 ft agl to 0 ft agl, a loss of 45 ft in 3 seconds. The flare was described as a fair landing flare with the pitch being pumped up and down. Touchdown occurred at 33 kt, a hard rate of minus 428 fpm, and the touchdown point was 66 m down the runway. Local weather at Hoherodskopf was 6 °C with a wind of 9 kt from 082°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 9 kt headwind. No bounce was observed.
Rollout continued at an altitude of 2,099 ft asl and covered 17 m. Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The total flight distance was 18 nm, the elapsed time 13 minutes, and fuel consumption was 5 kg.
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