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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 5.1°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
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 53 kt, 5 kt below the 58 kt target, and lifted off at 58 kt 0.5 s later, the nose coming up at 5.7° 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 174 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 895 m of runway left; then climbing at 620 fpm on average to 174 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 45 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.9 m left. Airborne 11 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 0.9 nm, where the final began, to 0.4 nm (up to 330 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 5× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 72 m right of the centreline at 0.9 nm, then inside the band from 0.6 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 29 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 0.9 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm (up to +18 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
Touchdown
The flare mostly held the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 3.7° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 123 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
From 53 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 8 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 1,293 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 33 ft, 52 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 18 ft, 32 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 123 m in, 181 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 1,293 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.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink went from 730 fpm at the flare to 240 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 full 1,293 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.8 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.3 m left 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 123 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 245 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The CubCrafters CC19 XCub departed EDFB Reichelsheim Airfield on runway 36. The take-off roll was 155 m, representing 12 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 53 kt. Local weather at departure was 11 °C with wind 10 kt from 011°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 10 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 15 seconds, averaging 567 fpm and reaching 98 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then continued climbing from 490 ft asl to 2,728 ft asl over 7 minutes, covering 12 nm while passing overhead Reichelsheim.
During the next phase the aircraft performed a series of three short climbs, descents and level legs between 2,100 ft asl and 3,000 ft asl for 5 minutes, covering 7 nm from 2 miles south of Schotten to overhead EDUR Hoherodskopf Airfield Ulrichstein.
The approach concluded with touchdown before the runway threshold. Touchdown speed was 67 kt, noted as fast, and the vertical rate was fair at minus 291 fpm. The touchdown point was excessively misaligned by 25,073.3 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 206 m, 16 % of the runway. Runway rollout alignment was excessively misaligned by 25,046.4 m from the centreline.
Local weather at landing was 11 °C with wind 10 kt from 012°, a 2 kt crosswind and a 10 kt headwind. After landing the aircraft taxied to parking in 13 minutes, covering 22 nm. The entire flight was 41 nm, lasted 25 minutes and used 9 kg of fuel.
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