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Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 457 m instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 356 m past the target, landing at 813 m against the 457 m aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 69 kt, on the 69 kt target, and lifted off at 71 kt 0.8 s later, the nose coming up at 1.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 89 kt target, at 87 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 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 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 678 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,042 m of runway left; then climbing at 660 fpm on average to 678 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,836 m runway.
Rolled from 111 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 0.8 m left, in 6 kn of crosswind from the right. 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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 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.
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 1.4 nm, about 660 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 190 ft above 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 341 m left of the centreline at 1.8 nm, then inside the band from 1.5 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −4 kt and +15 kt on the approach speed of 72 kt.
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
Touchdown
The flare tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 813 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
No wind recorded: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
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.
Crossed the threshold at 57 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft. Touched down 813 m in, 508 m past 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 290 fpm at the flare to 50 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° 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 first 1,524 m of the 1,916 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline.
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 813 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA40 taxied from the parking area to runway 19 at KSGU St George Regional Airport, a taxi of 10 minutes covering 2 nm.
Takeoff was performed on runway 19 with a takeoff roll of 626 m, which was 22 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 69 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 17 °C, wind 7 kt from 309°, giving a 7 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
The initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 60 seconds, averaging 488 fpm and reaching 90 kt at the top of the climb.
Climb continued from 3 571 ft asl to 5 605 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 4 nm, beginning 1 mile south of KSGU.
The aircraft then level-flew at 6 400 ft asl for 9 minutes, covering 18 nm, starting 3 miles southeast of KSGU.
Descent for the final approach to runway 11 at KAZC Colorado City Municipal Airport began at 711 ft agl and reached -1 ft agl in 79 seconds.
Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on speed. The configuration on final was flap position 2 at 647 ft agl with a speed of 96 kt.
Landing was on runway 11, whose length is 1 916 m. The threshold height of 57 ft agl was slightly above target and the threshold speed of 78 kt was slightly above target. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown.
Touchdown occurred 423 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 68 kt, with a descent rate of minus 54 fpm. Runway alignment was perfect and there was no bounce. Local weather at KAZC was temperature 18 °C, wind 4 kt from 140°, giving a 1 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind.
The total flight covered 27 nm in 23 minutes and used 7 kg of fuel.
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