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Departure
Correct the drift with small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway, holding the centreline through the roll.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted 30 ft off the centreline, and the aircraft held a bank angle of 4.1° through the first climb segment; drifting off centreline on the roll usually carries into a wandering heading through the second climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: runway heading held steady through the climb.
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 88 kt with 6.6° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 232 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 381 ft of runway left; then climbing at 850 fpm on average to 232 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.
Plan view the roll down the 3,086 ft runway.
Rolled from 157 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 29 ft at the widest, and lifted off 29 ft left, in 7 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 65 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.9 nm, about 480 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 4° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 520 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, 1,000 ft 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. 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 2,510 ft right of the centreline, then inside the band from 2.6 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 4 nm to 2.7 nm (up to +62 kt), then inside the band to 1.1 nm, then fast to 0.9 nm (up to +28 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
Great landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 279° at 15 kt · 15 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.
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 38 ft, 12 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,682 ft in, 682 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 280 fpm at 36 ft to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 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 first 5,000 ft of the 6,693 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7 ft left of the centreline.
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.
Touched down 1,682 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 23 at CD32 Castle Lakes Airport. The Baron 58P aircraft accelerated down the runway, covering a distance of 1,915 feet, which was 62% of the runway's length. The liftoff speed was achieved at 88 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 53°F and a wind speed of 18 knots from a direction of 265°. This resulted in a crosswind of 7 knots and a headwind of 16 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead CD32 Castle Lakes Airport and Lake City. The aircraft ascended from an initial altitude of 9,568 feet above sea level to a maximum altitude of 13,910 feet, an increase of 4,342 feet in just 4 minutes. During this climb, the aircraft covered a distance of 10 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 6 nautical miles. This phase began 6 miles northeast of Silverton, Colorado. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, which started 5 miles east of Telluride, Colorado. The descent phase saw the aircraft decrease its altitude from 13,875 feet to 10,406 feet, a decrease of 3,469 feet in 4 minutes, while covering a distance of 7 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 27 at KTEX Telluride Regional Airport was made from the east, with the aircraft heading 284.0° at a distance of 2 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,351 feet above ground level. The landing was executed on runway 27, which had a length of 6,693 feet. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 63°F and a wind speed of 15 knots from a direction of 279°, resulting in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 15 knots.
The touchdown point was 272 feet beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 80 knots, which was considered good. The touchdown rate was also good at -180 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, indicating a smooth and controlled landing. The total flight distance was 26 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 13 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 38 pounds of fuel during the flight.
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