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Monitor your taxi speed
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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 114 kt with 3.6° 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 943 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 861 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,870 fpm on average to 943 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 1,879 m runway.
Rolled from 103 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.4 m right. Airborne 41 % 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 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 1.0 nm, then low to 0.5 nm (up to 240 ft under), then back on it to the threshold.
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.
Outside the 1° band twice; furthest 150 m left at 3.7 nm.
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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −8 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 98 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
5 kt across from the right, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 82 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 310° at 8 kt · 7 kt head · 5 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 74 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 50 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 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 463 m in, 158 m past 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 820 fpm at 46 ft to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.6° 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 2,511 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 4.7 m right on the rollout, back to 2.1 m right by the end.
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 463 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.26 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Cockspur PH100, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at EDNY Friedrichshafen Airport. This process took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 24, and the aircraft lifted off after a takeoff distance of 700 meters, which was 37% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 114 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 12°C, with a wind speed of 9 knots coming from a direction of 249°. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 9 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead Friedrichshafen, Germany, and ascending from an altitude of 2,352 feet above sea level to 35,004 feet above sea level, an increase of 32,652 feet in 17 minutes, covering a distance of 67 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, starting overhead Winterbach, Germany, and lasting for 65 minutes, during which it covered a distance of 252 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting overhead Erxleben, Germany, and descending from an altitude of 34,665 feet above sea level to 2,917 feet above sea level, a decrease of 31,748 feet in 18 minutes, covering a distance of 74 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, starting 2 miles south east of Joerdenstorf, Germany, and lasting for 2 minutes, during which it covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, starting 1 mile north east of Gross Wuestenfelde, Germany, and descending from an altitude of 2,906 feet above sea level to 1,296 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,610 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 27 at ETNL Rostock-Laage Airport was made from the east, with the aircraft heading 280.0° at an altitude of 1,158 feet above ground level and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway. The landing took place on runway 27, which had a length of 2,511 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was also good at 94 knots.
The touchdown point was 94 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 82 knots, which was good. However, the touchdown rate was fair at -226 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 8°C, with a wind speed of 8 knots coming from a direction of 309°. This resulted in a crosswind of 4 knots and a headwind of 7 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,265 meters, which was 50% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also very good. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area from the runway, taking 2 minutes and covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 411 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 90 minutes. The aircraft used 504 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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