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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 2° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 3.6° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 26 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 26 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 26 ft to touchdown.
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 46 kt with 4.5° 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 440 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,436 m of runway left; then climbing at 460 fpm on average to 440 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 1,814 m runway.
Rolled from 87 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.7 m right. Airborne 9 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Very poor landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt tail · 1 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 41 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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 80 ft, 30 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,135 m in, 830 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.
The sink went from 1,690 fpm at 108 ft to 60 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 12.6° 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 1,814 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.1 m left of the centreline and drifted to 17 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.
Touched down 1,135 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This flight was conducted in a DV20 aircraft, which taxied from the parking area to the runway at EGPE Inverness Airport in less than 1 minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 23, with a takeoff distance of 194 meters, which accounted for 11% of the runway's length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 46 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 15°C, a wind speed of 2 knots at 269 degrees, resulting in a 1-knot headwind.
The enroute level cruise phase of the flight lasted for just 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile, with the aircraft flying overhead EGPE Inverness Airport. The landing phase took place on runway 05, which had a length of 1,814 meters. The threshold height at 81 feet above ground level was significantly above the target, and the threshold speed was also well above the target at 63 knots.
The touchdown point was located 335 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 34 knots, which was considered good. The touchdown rate was excellent at -51 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 4.1 meters. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of -3°C, a wind speed of 4 knots at 236 degrees, resulting in a 3-knot tailwind.
The total landing distance was 950 meters, accounting for 52% of the runway's length. The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned from the centreline by 17.8 meters. The total flight distance was 2 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 6 minutes, with no fuel being consumed during the flight.
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