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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 65 kt, then pitch for 114 kt in the climb.
What happened: You started the rotation at 110 kt, 45 kt past the 65 kt rotation speed, and that extra speed usually carries into the climb, which was 21 kt fast as well.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 65 kt at rotation, 114 kt in the climb
Arrival
After the sink arrests at 29 ft, keep easing the yoke forward to let the aircraft continue settling rather than pausing above the runway.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 29 ft and the aircraft was held level there instead of being let down. Holding off high like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown, and here the touchdown rate was 400 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, continuing descent through the flare all the way to touchdown.
Trim is the hidden variable. In trim, the flare is a small refinement to an aircraft already in equilibrium, a couple of millimetres of stick. Out of trim, you're holding a constant force all the way down final, and the flare becomes a large, badly judged movement stacked on top of a load you're already carrying. A striking proportion of "I can't judge the flare" complaints are trim complaints wearing a disguise. If you're holding pressure at 500 feet, fix that before you practise anything else.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 110 kt, 45 kt above the 65 kt target, and lifted off at 115 kt 2.2 s later, the nose coming up at 2.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 135 kt, 21 kt over its 114 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 878 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 249 m of runway left; gear up at 36 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 980 fpm on average to 878 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 1,525 m runway.
Rolled from 180 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 7.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.2 m right. 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. 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 30 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 24× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 15 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −0 kt and +12 kt on the approach speed of 76 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. The flare took the sink out 29 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft flew down from there. Touchdown was 399 m past the threshold. Let it come lower before checking the descent - holding off high uses runway and leaves the touchdown to chance.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, 3° of bank.
Wind 069° at 9 kt · 9 kt tail · 2 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 66 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 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 66 ft, 16 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 34 ft. Touched down 399 m in, 94 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 stayed between 380 fpm and 510 fpm from the flare to the runway. The nose came up 4.7° 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 2,635 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 22 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 6.4 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 399 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 400 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft Bonanza taxied to runway 23 at EGYP Mount Pleasant Airport and took off, using 1,016 m of runway (67 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 110 kt. The local weather was 15 °C with a wind of 22 kt from 229°, giving a 2 kt cross-wind and a 22 kt head-wind.
During the initial climb the aircraft reached 1,000 ft agl in 51 seconds, averaging 930 fpm and attaining 141 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 1,126 ft asl to 9,733 ft asl over 20 minutes, covering 44 nm and beginning about 1 mile south-west of EGYP.
The aircraft then levelled at 10,000 ft asl for 111 minutes, covering 271 nm, starting 12 miles north-west of SFTD Sea Lion Island Airstrip. A descent from 9,520 ft asl to 9,001 ft asl took 2 minutes over 4 nm, beginning 69 miles south-east of SA15 Lago Fagnano North Airport. After level flight at 9,000 ft asl for 24 minutes (61 nm, starting 65 miles south-east of Tolhuin) a further descent from 8,640 ft asl to 7,469 ft asl took 2 minutes over 4 nm, beginning 10 miles east of SCGZ Guardiamarina Zañartu Airport. Level flight at 7,000 ft asl followed for 27 minutes, covering 72 nm, starting 5 miles east of SCGZ. A final descent from 6,479 ft asl to 1,633 ft asl took 5 minutes over 7 nm, beginning 11 miles east of SAWH Malvinas Argentinas Airport.
On final approach to runway 25 at SAWH Malvinas Argentinas Airport the aircraft descended from 1,609 ft agl to 102 ft agl in 164 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level.
Landing was on runway 25 (runway length 2,635 m). The threshold height at 66 ft agl was above target and the threshold speed of 82 kt was slightly above target. The flare was very poor, held off too high. Touchdown occurred 399 m from the threshold at 57 kt, with a hard rate of -400 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 22.0 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,028 m (39 % of the runway). The rollout was slightly misaligned by 11.5 m from the centreline.
Local weather at landing was 12 °C with a wind of 9 kt from 070°, giving a 3 kt cross-wind and a 9 kt tail-wind. Taxiing from the runway to parking took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 470 nm in 198 minutes and used 134 kg of fuel.
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