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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 124 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 23 kt fast at 147 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 124 kt in the climb
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 13 stages, 12 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 79 kt with 9.7° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 147 kt, 23 kt over its 124 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 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 1,015 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 571 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,370 fpm on average to 1,015 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 1,169 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 0.3 m off the centreline. Airborne 47 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 37 kt above the approach speed of 73 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 22 kt above the approach speed of 73 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way.
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 4° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 10 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: 4° here, which is about 420 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 70 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 17× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 21 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +45 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 strayed well off the target profile. Crossing the threshold 45 kt above target, the flare took the sink out 28 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft flew down from there. Touchdown was 418 m past the threshold. Let it come lower before checking the descent - holding off high uses runway and leaves the touchdown to chance.
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 116 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 307° at 5 kt · 2 kt tail · 4 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 118 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 1,239 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 71 ft, 21 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 42 ft. Touched down 418 m in, 113 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 1,239 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 850 fpm at the flare to 420 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 8.0° 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 1,239 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7 m left of the centreline and drifted to 15 m left on 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.
The 418 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 419 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 06 at EGPA Kirkwall Airport, a movement that lasted 1 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 06, the Cessna 208B accelerated over a takeoff distance of 510 m, representing 44 % of the runway, and lifted off at 79 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 307°, a cross-wind component of 5 kt and a tail-wind component of 2 kt.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile north east of EGPA Kirkwall Airport, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The aircraft rose from 1,074 ft asl to 3,000 ft asl, an increase of 1,926 ft achieved in 3 minutes while covering 7 nm.
Level cruise began 5 miles south west of EGER Stronsay Airport, Stronsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, and persisted for 35 minutes, during which 91 nm were flown.
The final approach to runway 06 at EGPM Scatsta Airport was executed from the south west, on a heading of 55.0° at 4 nm and 1,702 ft agl.
Landing on runway 06 at EGPM Scatsta Airport, whose length is 1,239 m, occurred with a threshold height of 72 ft agl, noted as above target, and a threshold speed of 118 kt, described as excessively high. Touchdown was recorded at 367 m down the runway, with a speed of 116 kt, also noted as excessively fast, and a hard touchdown rate of minus 419 fpm. The touchdown point was offset by 7.0 m from the centreline. Local weather remained 15 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 307°, a cross-wind of 5 kt and a tail-wind of 2 kt.
The total landing distance measured 1,001 m, equivalent to 81 % of the runway, and the subsequent rollout showed a slight misalignment of 7.7 m from the centreline.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied back to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 104 nm, took 42 minutes, and consumed 97 kg of fuel.
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