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Track the centreline on final
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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.
Lifted off at 101 kt with 6.2° 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 1,004 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 807 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,510 fpm on average to 1,004 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 1,991 m runway.
Rolled from 57 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 12 m at the widest, and lifted off 9.8 m left, in 11 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 48 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 4° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 0.9 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm (up to 270 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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.
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 426 m right of the centreline at 0.9 nm, then 48 m left of it from 0.3 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
11 kt across from the right, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 91 kt. Touched down with the nose 11° left of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 290° at 20 kt · 16 kt tail · 11 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 108 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.27 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 968 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 44 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 406 m in, 101 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 968 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 620 fpm at 45 ft to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.6° 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 full 968 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.9 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.1 m right 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 406 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took 6 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a PC-12, then departed from runway 01 at EPSY Olsztyn-Mazury Airport in Poland. The takeoff distance was 926 meters, which accounted for 46% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 101 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 7 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 25 knots from a direction of 229 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 13 knots and a tailwind of 21 knots. The aircraft began its enroute climb 1 mile north of the airport, rising from an altitude of 1,483 feet above sea level to 19,101 feet above sea level, an increase of 17,618 feet, in 7 minutes and covering a distance of 48 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its enroute descent 4 miles north of Dabrowa, Poland, descending from 19,099 feet above sea level to 17,968 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,131 feet, in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 34 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, starting 2 miles southeast of Zelenogradsk, Russia, and lasting 13 minutes, covering a distance of 371 nautical miles.
The aircraft's next descent phase began 4 miles southeast of Bjoerbo, Sweden, where it descended from 17,501 feet above sea level to 1,842 feet above sea level, a decrease of 15,659 feet, in 15 minutes and covering a distance of 106 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, starting overhead Idre, Sweden, and lasting 3 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 14 at ESUE Idre Airport was made from the northwest, heading 134.0 degrees at an altitude of 329 feet above ground level and a distance of 1 nautical mile from the runway. The landing was made on runway 14, which had a length of 968 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was above the target speed of 95 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 403 meters, but the touchdown speed of 90 knots was too fast. The touchdown rate was fair at -202 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.9 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of -5 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 20 knots from a direction of 290 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 12 knots and a tailwind of 16 knots. The total landing distance was 785 meters, which accounted for 81% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The total flight distance was 565 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 47 minutes. The aircraft used 554 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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