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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 61 kt, not after it.
What happened: You started the rotation at 72 kt, 11 kt past the 61 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 61 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
On downwind, use small aileron and rudder corrections to hold the wings-parallel heading against the runway.
What happened: On the downwind leg the heading drifted -7.5° off the runway-parallel track.
Watch for: Heading indicator: parallel to the runway on downwind.
See Pattern Downwind
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 72 kt, 11 kt above the 61 kt target, and lifted off at 77 kt 1.8 s later, the nose coming up at 3.2° 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 791 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 657 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,020 fpm on average to 791 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 1,956 m runway.
Rolled from 762 m in, never more than 0.5 m off the centreline. Airborne 56 % 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.
Left-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, 1.2 nm out at 117 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.
Off heading: 8° from the leg's heading on average.
Spacing cues are relative to your eyepoint, so two simmers with different FOV settings following the same wingtip cue fly patterns half a mile different in width, and a wide FOV compresses depth so the runway on base looks further away than it is, biasing you towards a late turn. Pick a camera position and FOV, save it, and never change it, because every judgement you calibrate is calibrated to that picture.
Read more in Pattern WorkGood: 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 1.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 270 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 319 m left of the centreline at 1.1 nm, then inside it from 0.8 to 0.4 nm, then drifted 16 m left between 0.4 and 0.2 nm, then inside the band from 0.2 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +7 kt and +12 kt on the approach speed of 67 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
No wind recorded: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left 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 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 12 ft. Touched down 565 m in, 260 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 220 fpm at the flare to 30 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.1° 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 1,956 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.6 m left of 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 565 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 208B taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at LFBE Bergerac Dordogne Périgord Airport, a movement that lasted 11 minutes and covered 2 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 27, using a take-off distance of 1,097 m which represented 56 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 77 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 34 °C with a wind of 9 kt from 269°, giving a headwind component of 9 kt and a cross-wind component of 1 kt.
During the left-hand pattern the aircraft entered the circuit from runway 27, flying 1 nm in 17 seconds. The cross-wind leg covered less than 1 nm in 26 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 2 nm with a 45-degree angle to the runway and a heading change to 60.5°. The downwind leg itself was 2 nm long and was completed in 70 seconds. The base turn also measured 2 nm with a 45-degree angle to the runway, followed by a base leg of less than 1 nm completed in 21 seconds. The final turn was less than 1 nm and took 36 seconds. The final approach to runway 27 was from the east on a heading of 274.0°, commencing at 1 nm and 289 ft agl.
Landing was executed on runway 27, whose total length is 1,956 m. The threshold height at 56 ft agl was slightly above the target, and the threshold speed was recorded as 74 kt. Touchdown occurred 132 m beyond the designated touchdown zone with a speed of 64 kt, a vertical speed of minus 35 fpm, and a very good runway alignment. Local weather at the time was a temperature of 35 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 269°, providing a headwind component of 7 kt and a cross-wind component of 1 kt.
In total the flight covered 11 nm, required 9 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 24 kg of fuel.
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