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Maintain the centreline
See Departure Roll
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 85 kt with 1.1° 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 387 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft at the runway end; then climbing at 1,110 fpm on average to 387 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 682 m runway.
Rolled from 91 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 64 m at the widest, and lifted off 62 m left. Airborne 73 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 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 65 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 4 s, an average deceleration of 0.49 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 42 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 264 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 520 fpm at 43 ft to 230 fpm at 13 ft, then back up to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.0° 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 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.5 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4 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 264 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 31W at CAC8 Nanaimo Harbour Water Aerodrome, a water aerodrome located in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The DHC-2 Beaver aircraft took off with a takeoff distance of 455 meters, which was 67% of the available runway. The liftoff speed was 85 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of Nanaimo, it encountered local weather conditions of 16°C temperature and a wind of 10 knots at 260°. The crosswind was 8 knots, while the headwind was 5 knots. The enroute climb started overhead Nanaimo, where the aircraft ascended from 539 feet above sea level to 2,562 feet above sea level, an increase of 2,023 feet in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles.
After reaching the desired altitude, the aircraft entered a level cruise, which lasted for 2 minutes and covered 4 nautical miles. This cruise phase started 4 miles northwest of the Nanaimo Harbour Water Aerodrome. The aircraft then began its descent, which started 7 miles northwest of the aerodrome. The descent from 2,746 feet above sea level to 296 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,449 feet in 3 minutes, covered a distance of 5 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise phase was repeated, this time starting 3 miles east of Parksville, British Columbia, Canada. This cruise phase lasted for 2 minutes and covered 1 nautical mile. The final approach to landing began 2 miles east of Parksville, where the aircraft descended from 90 feet above ground level to 0 feet above ground level, a decrease of 42 feet in just 7 seconds.
The touchdown occurred 2 miles east of Parksville, with a touchdown speed of 64 knots and a firm touchdown rate of -380 feet per minute. The touchdown distance was good at 261 meters. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 15°C temperature and a wind of 2 knots at 270°, with a crosswind of 1 knot and a tailwind of 1 knot.
After touchdown, the aircraft began its landing rollout, which covered a distance of 59 meters. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, taking 3 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 15 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 13 minutes. Notably, the aircraft used 0 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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