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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 61 kt with 4.9° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 56 ft.
Reached 35 ft at the runway end.
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.
Plan view the roll down the 290 m runway.
Rolled from 67 m in, drifted 3.1 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 66 % 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, 4° of bank.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 42 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 227 m in, 78 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 540 fpm at 43 ft to 110 fpm at 22 ft, then back up to 490 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 6.0° 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 6.8 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.6 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 227 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.25 G arrival bounced 3 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 15 at Campo di Volo Tignes Airport, where the DHC-2 Beaver took off with a takeoff distance of 130 meters, which is 45% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 61 knots. At the time of takeoff, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 269 degrees, resulting in a negligible crosswind and tailwind.
After a brief enroute level cruise that lasted less than a minute and covered less than a nautical mile, the aircraft began its enroute climb from an altitude of 1,922 feet above sea level (asl) to 4,808 ft asl, an increase of 2,886 feet in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. This climb phase was initiated over Puos d'Alpago in Veneto, Italy.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, this time lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nautical miles, as it flew 2 miles south of Farra d'Alpago. Following this, the aircraft began another climb phase, this time from 5,355 ft asl to 7,000 ft asl, an increase of 1,644 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. This climb phase was initiated 2 miles northwest of Fregona in Veneto, Italy.
The aircraft then entered a prolonged level cruise phase that lasted 16 minutes and covered 11 nautical miles, as it flew 2 miles southeast of Limana in Veneto, Italy. After this, the aircraft began its descent phase, which started 1 mile northwest of San Gregorio nelle Alpi and involved a descent from 6,480 ft asl to 1,017 ft asl, a decrease of 5,463 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles.
The final approach to landing was made at Campo di Volo Sedico, with the aircraft descending from 1 nautical mile to 1 nautical mile at an altitude of 96 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft then approached touchdown, descending from 43 ft agl to 0 ft agl in just 6 seconds. The touchdown speed was 56 knots, which was considered good, while the touchdown rate was hard at -491 feet per minute (fpm). The touchdown distance was also good at 223 meters.
Following touchdown, the aircraft underwent a landing rollout at Campo di Volo Sedico, where it reached an altitude of 921 ft asl and covered a distance of 87 meters. The total flight distance was 26 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 31 minutes. The aircraft used a total of -112 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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