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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 139 kt with 12.5° 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 920 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,415 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,450 fpm on average to 920 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 3,489 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 101 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.4 m right. Airborne 25 % 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 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 90 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 7× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 51 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
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° right of the track, wings level.
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 56 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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 1,968 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 54 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 841 m in, 537 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 1,968 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 720 fpm at 54 ft to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 5.9° 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 1,968 m of the 2,585 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.3 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.6 m right by the end of 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.
Touched down 841 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 26R at LROP Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport, with a takeoff distance of 932 meters, which was 27% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 140 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 2°C, with no wind at all. The aircraft then took off and began its enroute climb, which started overhead the airport. The climb was from an altitude of 1,322 feet above sea level to 10,000 feet above sea level, an increase of 8,679 feet in just 5 minutes, covering a distance of 19 nautical miles.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 2 miles east of Crevedia Mare in Romania. This phase lasted for 14 minutes and covered a distance of 62 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb phase, this time from 10,000 feet to 39,011 feet above sea level, an increase of 29,011 feet in 14 minutes, covering a distance of 86 nautical miles.
The next level cruise phase started 9 miles south of Donji Milanovac in Serbia and lasted for 110 minutes, covering a distance of 649 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent phase, which started overhead Saint-Jeannet in France. The descent was from 38,920 feet above sea level to 1,099 feet above sea level, a decrease of 37,821 feet in 23 minutes, covering a distance of 135 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 30R at LFMT Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport was from the southeast, with a heading of 305.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,074 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown point 418 meters beyond the touchdown zone. However, the touchdown speed was a little fast at 106 knots, and the touchdown rate was smooth at -114 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 9.5 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.4 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 6°C, with no wind at all. The total landing distance was 1,879 meters, which was 73% of the runway length.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took just 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 958 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 150 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 2,307 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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