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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 114 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 42 kt fast at 156 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 114 kt in the climb
Arrival
Fly a slightly steeper approach path to cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 83 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 83 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, above the normal profile. This fault pattern is often followed by a long touchdown beyond the target point, and here the aircraft touched down at 1,947 ft against a 1,500 ft target.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 76 kt, 9 kt above the 67 kt target, and lifted off at 82 kt 1.1 s later, the nose coming up at 4.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 156 kt, 42 kt over its 114 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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 188 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,696 ft of runway left; gear up at 24 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 330 fpm on average to 188 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,958 ft runway.
Rolled from 161 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 23 ft at the widest, and lifted off 17 ft right, in 8 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 21 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.4 nm, about 280 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the glideslope.
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.
On the glideslope from 2.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm, then high to 0.4 nm (up to 210 ft over), 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, 1,000 ft 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,960 ft left of the centreline at 2.6 nm, then inside the band from 1.2 nm to the threshold.
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 41 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +3 kt and +28 kt on the approach speed of 81 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 tracked the target profile exactly. The flare was flown from 83 ft agl over the threshold, well above the target height, so the aircraft was above the profile for most of the landing. Touchdown was 1,947 ft past the threshold. The flare cannot recover height that was never lost - fly the approach down to the aim point and the flare has somewhere to start from.
7 kt across from the right, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 66 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 260° at 13 kt · 10 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 56 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 3,958 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 83 ft, 33 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 36 ft. Touched down 1,947 ft in, 947 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 3,958 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 470 fpm at the flare to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.1° 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 3,958 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 4 ft of it down 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 1,947 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft Bonanza A36 departed from runway 24 at CYMO Moosonee Airport. Takeoff distance was 858 ft, 22 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 76 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 60 °F, wind 14 kt from 259°, with a cross-wind component of 8 kt and a head-wind component of 11 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 31 seconds, averaging 355 fpm and reaching 169 kt at the top of the climb. This was followed by a series of three short climbs, descents and level legs between 200 ft asl and 1,900 ft asl over four minutes, covering 9 nm from overhead Moosonee to about three miles east of CYMO.
During final approach to runway 24, the aircraft descended from 970 ft agl to 93 ft agl in 112 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed and wings level; the check for centreline was not met. The final flap position was 2 at 1,576 ft agl, with an approach speed of 133 kt.
Landing was on runway 24, whose length is 3,958 ft. The threshold height at 83 ft agl was significantly above target, while the threshold speed of 84 kt was good. The flare was described as perfect and the aircraft crossed the threshold high. Touchdown occurred very far down the runway, using more than 50 % of the available length. Touchdown speed was 66 kt, rated good, with a smooth rate of -142 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 2,598 ft, 66 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Local weather at landing was temperature 59 °F, wind 11 kt from 260°, with a cross-wind component of 7 kt and a head-wind component of 9 kt.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 13 nm, the flight time 8 minutes, and fuel used was 20 lb.
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