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Maintain the centreline
See Departure Roll
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 65 kt with 4.1° 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 729 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 431 m of runway left; then climbing at 900 fpm on average to 729 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 948 m runway.
Rolled from 181 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 4 m left. Airborne 39 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, 2° of bank.
Wind 160° at 2 kt · 0 kt head · 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 67 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 840 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 40 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 339 m in, close to 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 840 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 920 fpm at 37 ft to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.6° 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 840 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.7 m left of the centreline and drifted to 14 m right 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.
The 339 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 less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cessna C182, then departed from runway 24 at ENOV Ørsta-Volda Airport, Hovden, with a takeoff distance of 210 meters, which accounted for 22% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 65 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 11 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 250 degrees. The crosswind was negligible, but there was a headwind of 1 knot. As the aircraft took off, it began its enroute climb, which started 1 mile northwest of Volda. The climb was from an altitude of 991 feet above sea level to 6,453 feet, an increase of 5,461 feet, in 9 minutes and covering a distance of 16 nautical miles.
The enroute descent began 3 miles east of Nordfjordeid, where the aircraft descended from 6,456 feet to 598 feet, a decrease of 5,858 feet, in 5 minutes and covering a distance of 8 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise started 1 mile northwest of Sandane and lasted for 4 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 08 at ENSD Sandane Airport, Anda, was made from the west, heading 86.0 degrees at an altitude of 158 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 08, which had a length of 840 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was too high at 77 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 337 meters, and the touchdown speed was 67 knots, which was fast. The touchdown rate was good at -162 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 7.8 meters from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 7.9 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 159 degrees. The crosswind was 1 knot, and there was no headwind.
The total landing distance was 550 meters, which accounted for 65% of the runway. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking area took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 28 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 23 minutes. The aircraft used 9 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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