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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 81 kt with 4.6° 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 466 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,080 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,120 fpm on average to 466 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 1,828 m runway.
Rolled from 105 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 4 m left. Airborne 28 % 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 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 140 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.
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 301 m left of the centreline at 1.5 nm.
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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to 0.2 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −11 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
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 216° at 3 kt · 3 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 66 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.20 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 880 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 242 m in, 63 m short of 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 880 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 240 fpm at 24 ft to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.2° 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 880 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.1 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.6 m right 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 242 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 to the runway, which took 15 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft, a DA62, then departed from runway 26 at KCMA Camarillo International Airport. The takeoff distance was 428 meters, which accounted for 23% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 82 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius, a wind speed of 6 knots at 234 degrees, with a crosswind of 3 knots and a headwind of 5 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead KCMA Camarillo International Airport. The climb took the aircraft from an altitude of 562 feet above sea level to 5,489 feet above sea level, an increase of 4,927 feet in just 5 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise then began 1 mile southwest of Camarillo, lasting 12 minutes and covering 23 nautical miles.
The first descent of the flight started 1 mile north of Topanga, where the aircraft descended from 5,446 feet above sea level to 2,327 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,119 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, this time from 2,360 feet above sea level to 4,544 feet above sea level, an increase of 2,183 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise then began overhead Santa Monica, lasting 9 minutes and covering 27 nautical miles.
The second descent of the flight started 4 miles southwest of Sunset Beach, where the aircraft descended from 4,480 feet above sea level to 1,519 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,961 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another level cruise, this time from 1 mile southeast of Huntington Beach, lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nautical miles. The final descent of the flight started overhead Costa Mesa, where the aircraft descended from 1,685 feet above sea level to 912 feet above sea level, a decrease of 773 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 20L at KSNA John Wayne Orange County International Airport, coming in from the northeast at a heading of 209.0 degrees, 1 nautical mile from the runway and at an altitude of 403 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown speed of 68 knots and a touchdown rate of -183 feet per minute. The touchdown distance was good at 241 meters, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.1 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius, a wind speed of 3 knots at 215 degrees, with a crosswind of 0 knots and a headwind of 3 knots. The total landing distance was 403 meters, which accounted for 46% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good, and the aircraft then began taxiing to the parking, which took 8 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 83 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 53 minutes. The aircraft used -1 kilogram of fuel during the flight.
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