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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 81 kt with 1.4° 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 589 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 747 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,580 fpm on average to 589 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 1,130 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 7 m at the widest, and lifted off 7 m left. Airborne 20 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 5° of bank.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 0 kt head · 0 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 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 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 45 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 130 m in, 175 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 1,524 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 830 fpm at 43 ft to 640 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° 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 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.2 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.8 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 130 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.72 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 04 at LFLP Annecy Haute-Savoie Mont Blanc Airport, where the DHC-2 Beaver took off with a takeoff distance of 346 meters, which accounted for 31% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 81 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15°C and a wind speed of 1 knot at 269 degrees, resulting in a negligible crosswind and tailwind.
As the aircraft climbed, it started its enroute climb overhead Metz-Tessy, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France, from an altitude of 2,147 feet above sea level. The climb was steep, with an increase of 1,255 feet in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile, starting overhead Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France.
The final approach to landing began overhead Menthon-Saint-Bernard, with the aircraft descending from an altitude of 89 feet above ground level to 0 feet agl. The descent was rapid, with a decrease of 45 feet in just 3 seconds. The aircraft then touched down, but at a speed of 73 knots, which was considered fast. The touchdown rate was also heavy, at -636 feet per minute, but the touchdown distance was good, measuring 127 meters.
Following the touchdown, the aircraft began its landing rollout, covering a distance of 275 meters and reaching an altitude of 1,459 feet above sea level. The taxiing to the parking area from the runway took 7 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 8 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 13 minutes. The aircraft used 14 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 16°C and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270 degrees, resulting in a negligible crosswind and a headwind of 0 knots.
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