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Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 74 kt with 7.4° of pitch.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 1,031 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 400 m of runway left; then climbing at 830 fpm on average to 1,031 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,356 m runway.
Rolled from 100 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.2 m right. Airborne 48 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 80 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 340 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.2 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 220° at 11 kt · 11 kt head · 0 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 64 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 36 s, an average deceleration of 0.05 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 18 ft, 32 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 272 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 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 120 fpm at 18 ft to 100 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° 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 2,086 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.7 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 272 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.09 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 began with a 10-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at LEBB Bilbao Airport, covering a distance of 3 nm. The departure roll on runway 10 involved a takeoff distance of 560 m, which was 41% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 74 kn. The local weather at the time of departure was 12 °C with a wind speed of 4 kn coming from 90 °, resulting in a headwind of 4 kn.
The enroute climb started overhead Derio, Spain, with the aircraft climbing from 1,171 ft asl to 9,941 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 3 nm. The enroute level cruise began 1 mile southeast of Erandio and lasted 7 minutes, covering 19 nm. The descent phase started 4 miles east of LEWM Campo de Vuelo de Oteo Villasana de Mena, with the aircraft descending from 9,916 ft asl to 5,868 ft asl in 7 minutes, covering 19 nm. Another enroute level cruise commenced 3 miles south of Frias, lasting 12 minutes and covering 20 nm.
The final approach to runway 22 at LEBG Burgos Airport was made from the northeast at a heading of 213.0 °, 4 nm out and at 1,336 ft agl. The landing on runway 22 involved a touchdown 272 m from the threshold at a speed of 72 kn, with a VSI of -101 ft/m. The local weather at the time of landing was 5 °C with a wind speed of 11 kn coming from 220 °, resulting in a headwind of 11 kn. The total landing distance was 1,131 m, which was 54% of the runway length.
After landing, it took 1 minute to taxi from the runway to the parking area, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance covered was 72 nm, with a total flight time of 49 minutes. The aircraft used 199 kg of fuel during the course of the flight.
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