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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 13°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Reduce power on approach to bring the threshold speed back to 93 kt.
What happened: Threshold speed was fast at 115 kt against 93 kt, the flare then started early at 98 ft, and the touchdown usually follows long - this flight's touchdown was 991 m past the aim point, 534 m beyond target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 93 kt at the threshold
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 94 kt, 3 kt above the 91 kt target, and lifted off at 104 kt 2.9 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 averaged 177 kt, 16 kt over its 161 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 920 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,970 m of runway left; gear up at 23 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,380 fpm on average to 920 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 2,836 m runway.
Rolled from 51 m in, drifted 6.8 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 5 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 23 % 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 300 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 300 ft gate: no landing flap set, sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 11 kt above the approach speed of 93 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high all the way, fast all the way, left of the centreline until 1.5 nm, banked until 1.5 nm, sinking too fast from 3.5 nm to the threshold.
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 1° band in green.
High from 4 nm to the threshold (up to 3,410 ft over).
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. 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.8 nm, then drifted 76 m left between 1.8 and 1.5 nm, then inside the band from 1.5 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 23 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 14 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +58 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 wandered off the target profile. The flare began at 98 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 991 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 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 106 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.31 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.
Began the flare high, at 98 ft, 62 m before the threshold; ballooned 4 ft from 15 ft. Touched down 991 m in, 686 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 the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 200 fpm before coming down at 210 fpm to touch. The nose came up 6.4° 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 2,745 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 14 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 5.3 m left by the end of 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.
Touched down 991 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 19 at KSGU St George Regional Airport, a movement that required 18 minutes and covered 4 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 19, the OV-10 Bronco accelerated over a takeoff distance of 662 m, representing 23 % of the runway, and lifted off at 105 kt; ambient temperature was 23 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 120°, including a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind.
The first en-route climb began 1 mile south of KSGU, climbing from 3,683 ft asl to 12,634 ft asl, an altitude gain of 8,952 ft achieved in 4 minutes while traversing 13 nm.
A level cruise segment commenced 7 miles south of UT47 Grassy Meadows/Sky Ranch Landowners Assn Airport, lasting 2 minutes and covering 6 nm.
The second climb started 6 miles west of KAZC Colorado City Municipal Airport, rising from 12,779 ft asl to 13,559 ft asl, a gain of 780 ft in 2 minutes over a distance of 6 nm.
A subsequent cruise phase began 2 miles southwest of Centennial Park, persisted for 2 minutes and spanned 7 nm.
The third climb was initiated 4 miles south of Cane Beds, increasing altitude from 13,738 ft asl to 17,155 ft asl, a climb of 3,417 ft completed in 8 minutes across 34 nm.
Following that, a cruise segment started 15 miles west of KGRM Devil’s Track Airport, lasted 2 minutes and covered 6 nm.
The fourth climb began 11 miles west of KGRM Devil’s Track Airport, climbing from 17,080 ft asl to 18,392 ft asl, an ascent of 1,313 ft in 2 minutes while traveling 6 nm.
A descent segment commenced 8 miles southwest of KGRM Devil’s Track Airport, descending from 18,408 ft asl to 5,072 ft asl, a loss of 13,336 ft in 3 minutes and covering 14 nm.
The aircraft then performed a climb 7 miles northeast of the Grand Canyon, rising from 5,080 ft asl to 8,126 ft asl, an increase of 3,045 ft over 4 minutes and 12 nm.
On final approach to runway 21 at KGCN Grand Canyon National Park Airport, the aircraft approached from the northeast on a heading of 222.0° at 1 nm and 1,535 ft agl.
Landing on runway 21, whose length is 2,743 m, the threshold speed was recorded at 116 kt; touchdown occurred 201 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 93 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 270 fpm and a lateral deviation of 13.8 m from the centreline. Local temperature was 22 °C, and the total landing distance measured 1,023 m, equivalent to 37 % of the runway.
Rollout alignment was noted as slightly off centreline by 13.2 m as the aircraft decelerated after touchdown.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 112 nm, lasted 35 minutes, and consumed 181 kg of fuel.
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