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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 124 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 27 kt fast at 151 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 124 kt in the climb
Arrival
Keep increasing back pressure through the flare so the nose rises above this aircraft's ground attitude before the wheels touch, holding it through touchdown.
What happened: The nose was at or below this aircraft's ground attitude at touchdown, so the nosewheel arrived with the main wheels or before them, and the touchdown rate was logged at 378 fpm. Across many flights, touching down this flat usually goes with a firmer arrival since the mains absorb the sink without the nose-up cushion.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: nose above this aircraft's ground attitude at touchdown
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 79 kt with 10.6° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 151 kt, 27 kt over its 124 kt target.
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 985 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 978 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,280 fpm on average to 985 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 1,530 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 0.3 m off the centreline, in 13 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 33 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 74 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 74 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way.
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 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 10 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. 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 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 13 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −6 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
The flare strayed well off the target profile. Pitch was -3.9° at touchdown, at or below this aircraft's ground attitude, so the nosewheel met the runway with the main wheels or before them. Touchdown was 259 m past the threshold. Keep raising the nose through the flare so the main wheels touch first.
7 kt across from the left, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 66 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 023° at 14 kt · 12 kt head · 7 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 54 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 1,169 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 52 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 12 ft. Touched down 259 m in, 46 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 1,169 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 stayed between 380 fpm and 380 fpm from the flare to the runway. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,169 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 259 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 378 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 208B taxied from the parking area to runway 31 at EGPC Wick Airport in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm on the ground.
During the departure roll on runway 31, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 79 kt and became airborne after a takeoff distance of 470 m, representing 31 % of the runway length; ambient temperature was 15 °C with wind 14 kt from 023°, a 14 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile north-west of EGPC, with the airplane rising from 1,122 ft asl to 2,796 ft asl, a gain of 1,675 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 4 nm.
Level cruise began about 5 nm north-west of EGPC and was maintained for 12 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 27 nm.
Descent was initiated 3 nm north of EGZQ Flotta Isle Airport, descending from 2,944 ft asl to 1,323 ft asl, a loss of 1,621 ft over 5 minutes and a distance of 5 nm.
The final approach to runway 06 at EGPA Kirkwall Airport was flown from the south-west on a heading of 58.0° at 4 nm and 1,279 ft agl; local conditions were 15 °C, wind 14 kt from 023°, with an 8 kt cross-wind and a 12 kt head-wind.
Landing on runway 06 was executed with a threshold speed of 69 kt; touchdown occurred 229 m down the runway at 66 kt, a firm rate of minus 378 fpm, and perfect alignment, resulting in a total landing distance of 358 m (31 % of the runway).
The rollout continued with perfect runway alignment, confirming the touchdown performance and completing the ground phase of the flight.
In total, the flight covered 42 nm, required 24 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 51 kg of fuel.
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