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Monitor your taxi speed
See Departure Taxi
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.
Read more in How to Taxi AnywhereStart to finish · 18 stages, 13 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 123 kt with 0.7° 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 1,076 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft at the runway end; then climbing at 2,060 fpm on average to 1,076 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 827 m runway.
Rolled from 192 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 6.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 4 m right. Airborne 35 % 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.
Outside the glideslope band twice; furthest off 540 ft low at 2.5 nm.
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.
Joined 808 m left of the centreline, then inside it from 2.9 to 0.9 nm, then 37 m left of it from 0.9 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Outside the speed band 3 times; furthest +34 kt at 1.3 nm.
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
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left 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 102 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 s, an average deceleration of 0.32 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 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 477 m in, 172 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.
From 18 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 310 fpm before coming down at 290 fpm to touch. The nose came up 5.6° 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 1,828 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.8 m 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 477 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Beechcraft King Air 350 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Essex County Airport, KCDW. This process took 8 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then departed from runway 28, with a takeoff distance of 510 meters, which accounted for 62% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 123 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 29 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 0 knots at 0 degrees. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead Fairfield, New Jersey, and ascending from 1,301 feet above sea level to 570 feet above sea level, an increase of 732 feet in just 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 23 at Morristown Municipal Airport, KMMU, was initiated from the north-east, with a heading of 224.0 degrees at a distance of 3 nautical miles and an altitude of 372 feet above ground level. However, the aircraft was required to perform a go-around at an altitude of 317 feet above ground level.
The aircraft then successfully landed on runway 23 at KMMU, with a runway length of 1,828 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was too high at 121 knots. The touchdown point was 53 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 99 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was fair at -287 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 24 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 0 knots at 359 degrees. The crosswind and headwind were both 0 knots. The total landing distance was 735 meters, which accounted for 40% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area from the runway, taking less than 1 minute and covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 12 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 7 minutes. The aircraft used 51 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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