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Monitor your taxi speed
See Arrival Taxi
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 73 kt with 4.0° 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 342 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,620 m of runway left; then climbing at 730 fpm on average to 342 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.
Plan view the roll down the 2,490 m runway.
Rolled from 124 m in, drifted 2 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 19 % 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.
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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.9 nm, about 310 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 60 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° 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 639 m left of the centreline at 1.6 nm, then inside the band from 0.9 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −3 kt and +22 kt on the approach speed of 73 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
Perfect landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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.
Began the flare at 19 ft, 91 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 13 ft, 37 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 359 m in, 55 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 220 fpm at the flare to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.4° 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 1,992 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.4 m of it down 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 359 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.13 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
Departure from Groningen Airport Eelde, EHGG, commenced with a departure roll on runway 23. The aircraft, a Sierra C24R, accelerated down the 527-meter runway, utilizing only 21% of its available length, before lifting off at a speed of 74 knots. The local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15°C and a light wind of 1 knot from 270°, resulting in a negligible crosswind and headwind component.
As the aircraft transitioned into the enroute climb phase, it began to ascend from an initial altitude of 378 feet above sea level to 1,006 feet, a gain of 629 feet in just one minute. This initial climb was followed by a brief level cruise, during which the aircraft maintained a steady altitude for two minutes while covering a distance of three nautical miles. The enroute climb phase resumed 1 mile east of Zeyen, with the aircraft ascending from 956 feet to 3,538 feet in five minutes, a gain of 2,582 feet. This climb phase was followed by a prolonged level cruise, lasting 38 minutes and covering 81 nautical miles, before the aircraft began its descent towards Rotterdam The Hague Airport, EHRD.
The final approach to runway 24 at EHRD was initiated from the north-east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 238.0° at 1 nautical mile and 278 feet above ground level. The landing was characterized by a touchdown speed of 58 knots, a touchdown distance of 358 meters, and a touchdown rate of -96 feet per minute, all of which were within acceptable limits. The total landing distance was 1,101 meters, representing 55% of the available runway length. Following a smooth rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in three minutes, covering a distance of 1.06 nautical miles. The total flight distance was 227 nautical miles, with a flight time of 63 minutes and a fuel consumption of 0 kilograms.
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