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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 14°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
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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Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 83 kt against the 83 kt rotate speed, the nose rising at 3.2° a second, then held 9.9° from 35 ft, within 2.0° top to bottom.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,835 m runway.
Rolled from 67 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.6 m left. Airborne 26 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to 233 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,087 m of runway left; then climbing at 860 fpm on average to 233 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.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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.
Over the threshold
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 945 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 33 ft, 17 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 30 ft. Touched down 290 m in, close to 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 945 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 420 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 90 kt, 3 kt over the 87 kt approach speed, and 82 kt at touchdown.
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 945 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.9 m left at the widest. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 121° at 21 kt · 20 kt head · 2 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way. 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.
The 290 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 63 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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.
The rest of the report
The aircraft departed from runway 13 at YNPE Northern Peninsula Airport. Takeoff used 493 m, 27 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 83 kt. Local weather was 27 °C with wind 8 kt from 122°, giving a 2 kt crosswind and a 7 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 15 seconds, averaging 861 fpm and reaching 115 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 319 ft asl to 2,769 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 3 nm, starting overhead YNPE Northern Peninsula Airport Bamaga.
The aircraft then levelled at 3,000 ft asl for 7 minutes, covering 28 nm, beginning 2 nm north of YNPE Northern Peninsula Airport Bamaga.
Descent began from 3,000 ft asl to 186 ft asl in 7 minutes, covering 17 nm, starting 7 nm north of YHID Horn Island Airport Horn, with a brief level-off at 1,500 ft asl.
Landing was on runway 11 at YKUB Kubin Island Airport, whose length is 945 m. The threshold was good and the threshold speed was 90 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred at 82 kt, 290 m down the runway, with a rate of -61 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 767 m, 81 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at the airport was 29 °C with wind 21 kt from 121°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and a 20 kt headwind.
The total flight covered 49 nm in 16 minutes and consumed 64 kg of fuel.
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