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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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 70 kt with 4.9° 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 1,041 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 203 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,350 fpm on average to 1,041 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 755 m runway.
Rolled from 43 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.5 m left. Airborne 42 % 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.
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.
At the 300 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, banked until 0.9 nm and left of the centreline until 0.6 nm.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 4° 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 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: 4° here, which is about 420 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 70 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. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
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 left of the centreline at 1.1 nm, then inside the band from 0.6 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +21 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 (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 111° at 3 kt · 0 kt head · 2 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 68 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 755 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 14 ft, 36 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 201 m in, 104 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 755 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 570 fpm at 13 ft to 50 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.1° 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 full 755 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3 m left of the centreline and drifted to 7 m left on the rollout.
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 201 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 0.87 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 20 at EGET Lerwick / Tingwall Airport, a small airport located in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The aircraft, a Piper PA-24-250 Comanche, accelerated down the runway and lifted off at a speed of 70 kt, covering a distance of 311 m, which was 41% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 11 °C and a light wind of 3 kt blowing from 111 °.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began to ascend from an initial altitude of 1,098 ft above sea level to a higher altitude of 1,573 ft, an increase of 475 ft in just 1 minute. This rapid climb was achieved while covering a distance of less than 1 nm. The enroute level cruise phase of the flight started 1 mile northeast of Scalloway, another location in the Shetland Islands, and lasted for 2 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 2 nm.
As the flight continued, the aircraft began its descent from an altitude of 1,631 ft above sea level to a lower altitude of 307 ft, a decrease of 1,324 ft in 3 minutes. This descent phase covered a distance of 2 nm and brought the aircraft back towards the airport. The final approach to runway 20 at EGET Lerwick / Tingwall Airport was made from the north, with the aircraft flying at a heading of 194.0 ° and an altitude of 267 ft above ground level.
The landing on runway 20 was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 63 kt and a distance of 199 m, which was a good touchdown distance. However, the touchdown speed was a little fast, and the touchdown rate was perfect at 15 fpm. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, indicating that the pilot had made a precise approach to the runway. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 20 °C and a light wind of 3 kt blowing from 227 °.
The total landing distance was 522 m, which was 69% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also very good, indicating that the pilot had maintained control of the aircraft during the rollout phase. The total flight distance was 7 nm, and the flight duration was 6 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 4 kg of fuel during the flight.
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