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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 2.4° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 6.9° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
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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Events
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 58 kt with 7.1° 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 941 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,181 m of runway left; then climbing at 950 fpm on average to 941 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 2,606 m runway.
Rolled from 50 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.6 m right. Airborne 8 % 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 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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way and left of the centreline until 1.1 nm.
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 2.8° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 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: 2.8° here, which is about 300 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 860 m left of the centreline at 2.2 nm, then inside the band from 1.1 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 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +40 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 100° at 5 kt · 5 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.
From 59 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 25 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 38 ft, 12 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 413 m in, 108 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 210 fpm at 35 ft to 70 fpm at 9 ft, then back up to 230 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° 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 2,606 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 21 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2.1 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 413 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.23 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight was conducted in a Pilatus PC-6 aircraft, departing from runway 11 at Cibao International Airport. The takeoff distance was 194 meters, which accounted for 7% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 58 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 7 knots from a direction of 102 degrees. This resulted in a headwind of 7 knots and no crosswind.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead the airport. The aircraft ascended from an initial altitude of 1,528 feet above sea level to a maximum altitude of 2,277 feet, an increase of 749 feet in just 1 minute. This climb covered a distance of 2 nautical miles.
After reaching the desired altitude, the aircraft began its enroute descent, which started 1 mile east of Licey al Medio. The descent from 2,280 feet to 1,053 feet, a decrease of 1,226 feet in 3 minutes, covered a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 11 at Cibao International Airport was conducted from the west, with the aircraft heading 107.0 degrees at 1 nautical mile and 480 feet above ground level. The landing was executed on runway 11, which had a length of 2,606 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was well above the target speed of 70 knots.
The touchdown distance was good at 411 meters, and the touchdown speed was 52 knots, which was also good. The touchdown rate was good at -194 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 21.3 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 5 knots from a direction of 100 degrees, resulting in a headwind of 5 knots and no crosswind.
The total landing distance was 917 meters, which accounted for 35% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 22.1 meters from the centerline. The total flight distance was 9 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 6 minutes. The aircraft used 21 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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