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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 8.9 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Raise the nose more slowly in the flare and stop as soon as the sink is checked; if it balloons, hold the attitude.
What happened: The flare ballooned, with 217 fpm of sink returning after the arrest; a balloon like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown, as it did here at 176 fpm.
Watch for: The runway ahead: the aircraft still sinking gently towards it through the flare, never rising.
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 · 14 stages, 12 in the score
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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: seven 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: sink rate 1,774 fpm, more than the glideslope needed, glideslope 7.2° against the runway's 3° and centreline 1.1° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 837 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 837 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 318 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna Skyhawk taxied from the parking area to runway 34 at LIRU Rome Urbe Airport in approximately 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 34, the aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 346 m, representing 41 % of the runway, and rotated at 69 kt; ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 269°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and no head-wind.
Climb commenced about 2 mi north of LIRU, with the airplane ascending from 1,197 ft asl to 3,062 ft asl-a gain of 1,865 ft-over 3 minutes while covering 5 nm.
Descent began roughly 1 mi south-west of the airport, the aircraft descending from 3,055 ft asl to 254 ft asl, a loss of 2,801 ft in 3 minutes and traversing another 5 nm.
On final approach to runway 34, the flight reduced altitude from 721 ft agl to 46 ft agl within 29 seconds and met the stabilisation gates criteria.
Touchdown occurred on runway 34, whose length is 837 m; the threshold speed was 70 kt, the touchdown distance measured 318 m, the touchdown speed was 49 kt, and the vertical speed was minus 176 fpm, with the wheel track offset 4.3 m from the centreline; weather at this stage was 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind and no head-wind.
The subsequent runway rollout was described as very good in alignment, and the total landing distance recorded was 439 m, equivalent to 52 % of the runway length.
The aircraft taxied back to the parking area in about 1 minute, again covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 14 nm, lasted 11 minutes, and consumed 5 kg of fuel.
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