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Departure
Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 117 kt, holding a steady rotation rate rather than snatching the controls.
What happened: On the takeoff roll the aircraft bounced before becoming fully airborne.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: a smooth, continuous pitch-up through liftoff with no secondary bounce.
See Departure Roll
The 45-degrees-behind-the-wing cue assumes you can turn your head and use peripheral vision. Downwind spacing cues like "put the wingtip halfway up the strut" assume a fixed, known eyepoint. Neither survives a monitor unmodified. If you fly on a fixed monitor, stop pretending and fly a numbers-based circuit.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
At the 500 ft gate: speed above the reference speed.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,216 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 182 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Build 406 Caravan II cargo plane, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (EDDH). This process took approximately 4 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then proceeded to depart from runway 33, with a takeoff distance of 447 meters, which accounted for 14% of the runway's total length. The liftoff speed was recorded at 111 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 14 knots at a direction of 319 degrees. The crosswind was minimal at 3 knots, while the headwind was 14 knots. The aircraft then entered a left-hand pattern from runway 33, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles in 49 seconds.
The left-hand pattern continued with a crosswind turn, which the aircraft completed in 23 seconds, covering a distance of 1 nautical mile. The pattern then proceeded to the downwind turn, where the aircraft flew at an angle of 88.7 degrees to the runway, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The downwind leg itself was 3 nautical miles long and took 72 seconds to complete.
The aircraft then began its base leg turn, which covered a distance of 5 nautical miles and had an angle of 26.6 degrees to the runway. The final approach to runway 33 was made from the south-east, with the aircraft flying at a heading of 329.0 degrees and an altitude of 470 feet above ground level, 2 nautical miles from the runway.
The landing on runway 33 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 182 meters and a touchdown speed of 106 knots. The touchdown rate was excellent at -61 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 11 knots at a direction of 330 degrees, with a minimal crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 11 knots.
The total landing distance was 755 meters, which accounted for 23% of the runway's total length. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.2 meters from the centreline. The total flight distance was 22 nautical miles, which was completed in 12 minutes, and the aircraft used 52 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The aircraft in question, an iniBuilds F406 Caravan II (Cargo), successfully landed at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport on runway 33. The final approach was initiated from the south east, with the aircraft heading 329.0° at an altitude of 470 feet above ground level (agl) and a distance of 2 nautical miles from the runway.
The landing was executed with precision, with the aircraft touching down on the runway at a speed of 106 knots. The touchdown distance was good, measuring 182 meters, and the touchdown rate was excellent, with a rate of -61 feet per minute (fpm). The runway touchdown alignment was also very good, indicating a high degree of control and stability during the landing.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were favorable, with a temperature of 19°C and a wind speed of 11 knots from a direction of 330°. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 11 knots, which did not appear to have any significant impact on the landing.
However, the total landing distance was slightly longer than expected, measuring 755 meters, which accounted for 23% of the runway length. Additionally, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.2 meters from the centerline, indicating a slight deviation from the ideal path.
Overall, the landing was considered successful, with a high degree of precision and control demonstrated by the pilot. The aircraft's performance was good, and the landing was executed with a high level of skill and expertise.
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