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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 92 kt with 6.0° 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 1,011 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,440 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,200 fpm on average to 1,011 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 2,753 m runway.
Rolled from 84 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 11 m at the widest, and lifted off 11 m right. Airborne 31 % 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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 30 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° 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 10 m left of it from 0.3 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 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 4 nm to 1.0 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +36 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 356° at 5 kt · 5 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 81 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 592 m in, 287 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 370 fpm at 42 ft to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.4° 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 2,539 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.2 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4 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.
Touched down 592 m past the threshold — beyond 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 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cessna 414A, then departed from runway 17 at LATI Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa. The takeoff distance was 795 meters, which accounted for 29% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 92 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 4 knots at 240 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 4 knots and a headwind of 2 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile west of Kamez in Tirana, Albania. The climb took 20 minutes and covered 33 nautical miles, with the aircraft ascending from 1,149 feet above sea level to 24,120 feet above sea level, an increase of 22,971 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 20 miles southwest of Kavaje in Tirana, Albania. This phase lasted for 116 minutes and covered 370 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 8 miles southeast of Giglio Porto in Toscana, Italy. The descent took 21 minutes and covered 58 nautical miles, with the aircraft descending from 24,075 feet above sea level to 4,908 feet above sea level, a decrease of 19,167 feet.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 10 miles east of Santa-Lucia-di-Moriani in Corse, France. This phase lasted for only 3 minutes and covered 9 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, starting 3 miles southeast of San-Giuliano in Corse, France. The descent took 5 minutes and covered 12 nautical miles, with the aircraft descending from 4,907 feet above sea level to 1,312 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,595 feet.
The final approach to runway 34 at LFKB Bastia-Poretta Airport was made from the south, with the aircraft heading 343.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,285 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 34, which had a length of 2,539 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was too high at 103 knots. The touchdown point was 159 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was a little fast at 85 knots. However, the touchdown rate was smooth at -117 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.2 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 5 knots at 355 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 5 knots. The total landing distance was 921 meters, which accounted for 36% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 491 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 177 minutes. The aircraft used 352 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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