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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 97 kt with 5.3° 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 534 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,259 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,080 fpm on average to 534 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 2,561 m runway.
Rolled from 356 m in, drifted 2.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.3 nm, about 360 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 ft below 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 851 m left of the centreline at 2.0 nm, then inside the band from 1.3 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 46 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 28 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.0 nm, where the final began, to 1.6 nm (up to +49 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 269° at 2 kt · 1 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 86 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 39 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 381 m in, 77 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 180 fpm at 24 ft to 40 fpm at 7 ft, then back up to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.4° 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 2,561 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.6 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.8 m left at the widest.
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 381 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (LFMN), the aircraft began its taxiing sequence from the parking area to the runway, a journey that took approximately 6 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. Upon reaching runway 22R, the aircraft initiated its departure roll, utilizing 1,026 meters, or 40% of the runway's length, to achieve liftoff at a speed of 98 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 16°C, with a gentle wind blowing at 2 knots from a direction of 270°, resulting in a negligible crosswind and headwind component.
As the aircraft transitioned into the enroute climb phase, it began ascending from an altitude of 620 feet above sea level to 2,409 feet, a vertical increase of 1,789 feet, in just 1 minute and covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. The climb phase was followed by a level cruise, which lasted for 6 minutes and spanned a distance of 20 nautical miles, as the aircraft flew southeast of Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport. The enroute descent phase commenced overhead Monte-Carlo, where the aircraft descended from 2,162 feet to 1,170 feet, a decrease of 991 feet, in 2 minutes and covering 4 nautical miles. The final approach phase began 1 mile east of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, with the aircraft flying a heading of 223.0° at an altitude of 276 feet above ground level.
The aircraft successfully landed on runway 22R, utilizing 379 meters of the runway's length, or 15% of the total length, and touching down at a speed of 86 knots. The touchdown rate was smooth, at -112 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.8 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 947 meters, or 37% of the runway's length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a journey that took approximately 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 38 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 19 minutes, and the aircraft utilized 42 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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