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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Add power on short final to hold speed at 76 kt, correcting the slow threshold speed before it carries through to the flare.
What happened: Threshold speed was slow at 74 kt against 76 kt, and touchdown followed short of the aim point at 67 m. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries the touchdown short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 76 kt on short final.
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, 10 in the score
Events
Events
Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 63 kt, 7 kt before the 70 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,293 m runway.
Rolled from 66 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.1 m left. Airborne 16 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 520 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 908 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,020 fpm on average to 520 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
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 and speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 76 kt.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, about 140 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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.
Why this is not a circuit
Off and back onto EDFB, scored as a flight. A circuit passes all five:
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 1.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 110 ft below 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 253 m left of the centreline at 1.4 nm, then inside the band from 1.2 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.4 nm, where the final began, to 0.6 nm (up to +25 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
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.
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,293 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 13 ft, 170 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 53 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 67 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 1,293 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 1,293 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 2.4° of bank.
Wind 247° at 1 kt · 0 kt tail · 0 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 67 m short of the threshold. The 1.47 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
The Extra 330 taxied to runway 36 at EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield and departed, using 226 m of runway (18 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 63 kt. Local weather was 8 °C with wind 1 kt from 245°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and no head-wind.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 28 seconds, averaging 830 fpm and reaching 125 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then levelled at 900 ft asl for about 3 minutes, covering 6 nm and flying overhead Reichelsheim.
Descent for the final approach began at 443 ft agl and continued to 60 ft agl in 46 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were: gear down - met; sink rate - met; glideslope - met; landing flap - not met; speed - not met.
The aircraft landed on runway 36. Touchdown occurred 67 m short of the threshold; the threshold speed was 74 kt and touchdown speed was 65 kt, both recorded as good. The flare was described as a great landing flare with little round-out. Touchdown rate was -172 fpm, also noted as good. The touchdown point was 4.2 m off centreline and the aircraft bounced twice. Runway rollout alignment was very good and the total landing distance was 815 m (63 % of runway).
The flight covered 8 nm in 4 minutes and used 2 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 8 °C with wind 1 kt from 247°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind and no head-wind.
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