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Maintain the centreline
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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 64 kt with 9.5° 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 788 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,930 m of runway left; then climbing at 490 fpm on average to 788 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 2,404 m runway.
Rolled from 40 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 14 m at the widest, and lifted off 13 m right, in 7 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 13 % 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.
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 30 ft below 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 17× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 21 m off the centreline.
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
9 kt across from the left, which takes about 8° of crab to hold the centreline at 64 kt. Touched down with the nose 17° into wind, wings level.
Wind 000° at 10 kt · 0 kt head · 9 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 66 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 29 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 344 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 340 fpm at 37 ft to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.9° 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 3,347 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 16 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 17 m right 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 344 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 started at LPFR Faro Airport, with a 16-minute taxi from the parking to the runway, covering 4 nm. The departure roll was from runway 28, with a takeoff distance of 279 m (12% of the runway) and a liftoff speed of 64 kn. The local weather at the time of departure was 17 °C with a 10 kn wind from 330 °, resulting in a crosswind of 7 kn and a headwind of 6 kn.
The enroute climb began 2 miles west of LPFR Faro Airport, climbing from 819 ft asl to 9,995 ft asl over 14 minutes and covering 21 nm. The enroute level cruise started 11 miles southeast of Fuzeta and lasted 14 minutes, covering 36 nm. The enroute descent began 2 miles northeast of Punta Umbria, descending from 9,986 ft asl to 3,106 ft asl over 9 minutes and covering 25 nm. Another enroute level cruise segment started 2 miles west of Hinojos and lasted 11 minutes, covering 18 nm. The next descent segment started overhead Valencina de la Concepcion, descending from 2,437 ft asl to 1,343 ft asl over 3 minutes and covering 4 nm.
The final approach to runway 09 at LEZL Sevilla Airport was from the west, heading 90.0 ° at 4 nm and 1,240 ft agl. The landing on runway 09 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 341 m, a touchdown speed of 64 kn, and a smooth touchdown rate of -114 ft/m. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 16.1 m from the centerline. The total landing distance was 931 m (28% of the runway), with a misalignment of 18.3 m from the centerline during the runway rollout.
After landing, taxiing to the parking from the runway took 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 115 nm, taking 62 minutes and using 250 kg of fuel. Overall, the flight in the Douglas DC-3 was successful, with efficient operations throughout the journey.
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