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Departure
Use rudder and aileron to hold the extended centreline, correcting drift before it reaches -1.5°.
What happened: During the initial climb the heading drifted -1.5° off the runway track.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level on the runway track
Arrival
Apply small rudder corrections at touchdown, aiming at a point at the far end of the runway, to stay on the centreline.
What happened: Touchdown drifted 8 m off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 7.5 m.
Watch for: Runway centreline: aircraft tracking directly over it through touchdown and rollout.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 48 kt, 6 kt above the 42 kt target, and lifted off at 51 kt 0.7 s later, the nose coming up at 2.0° 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 577 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 492 m of runway left; then climbing at 860 fpm on average to 577 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 906 m runway.
Rolled from 127 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.9 m left. Airborne 20 % 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.
Right-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 0.8 nm out at 80 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 0.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 140 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.
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 50 m left of the centreline at 0.9 nm, then inside the band from 0.5 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 22 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 13 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −4 kt and +12 kt on the approach speed of 43 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 1 kt head · 1 kt across
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.
From 35 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 2 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 906 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 15 ft, 37 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 6 ft, 44 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 84 m in, 220 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 906 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 320 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 6.9° 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 906 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 8 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 84 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied to runway 22 at EGHN Isle of Wight / Sandown Airport and commenced the departure roll. The take-off run required 201 m, representing 22 % of the available runway, and the aircraft lifted off at 52 kt. Ambient conditions were 20 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 212°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
During the right-hand pattern entry the aircraft covered less than 1 nm in 19 seconds, followed by a right-hand cross-wind segment of less than 1 nm in 12 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with an angle to the runway of 57.2°, after which the downwind leg extended 1 nm in 66 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 1 nm at an angle of 33.5°, and the subsequent base leg was less than 1 nm in 18 seconds. The final turn was less than 1 nm in 28 seconds. On final approach to runway 22 the aircraft descended from 442 ft AGL to 17 ft AGL in 74 seconds and met the stabilisation gates.
Landing was executed on runway 22, whose length is 906 m. The threshold speed was slightly below the target at 39 kt. Touchdown occurred 81 m from the threshold at 35 kt with a touchdown rate of minus 45 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 8.0 m from the centreline. The total landing roll measured 121 m, equivalent to 13 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was offset 8.1 m from the centreline.
After touchdown the aircraft decelerated along the runway, maintaining the noted 8.1 m centreline deviation, and then exited the paved surface to complete the roll-out phase.
In total the flight covered 5 nm, required a duration of 5 (units as recorded), and consumed 0 kg of fuel.
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