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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 79 kt with 3.5° 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 343 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 91 m of runway left; then climbing at 860 fpm on average to 343 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 960 m runway.
Rolled from 282 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 9.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.4 m right. Airborne 63 % 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 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 60 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 18× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 20 m off the centreline.
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 all the way, between −5 kt and +13 kt on the approach speed of 77 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 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 65 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 264 m in, close to 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 400 fpm at 23 ft to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° 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 1,524 m of the 2,135 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.6 m left of the centreline and drifted to 6.8 m left on 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 264 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.11 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Pesim FPV Drone Racer taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KHPN Westchester County Airport, a process that took 8 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. Once on the runway, the drone took off from runway 11, covering a distance of 338 meters, which was 35% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 80 knots.
As the drone departed the airport, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 16°C and a wind speed of 1 knot at 269°. The crosswind was negligible, while the tailwind was 1 knot. The drone then began its enroute climb, starting overhead KHPN Westchester County Airport and ascending from 774 feet above sea level to 4,015 feet above sea level, an increase of 3,241 feet in just 3 minutes. This climb covered a distance of 6 nautical miles.
Following the climb, the drone entered a level cruise, starting 1 mile south east of Rye, New York, and lasting for 15 minutes. During this period, the drone covered a distance of 31 nautical miles. The enroute descent began 2 miles south east of New Dorp Beach, where the drone descended from 3,856 feet above sea level to 1,357 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,499 feet in 5 minutes. This descent covered a distance of 12 nautical miles.
As the drone approached its destination, KLGA LaGuardia Airport, it began its final approach to runway 04 from the south west, heading at 32.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,338 feet above ground level. The drone landed on runway 04, which had a length of 2,135 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 72 knots.
The touchdown distance was good at 262 meters, and the touchdown speed was 64 knots, which was also good. The touchdown rate was smooth at -125 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.6 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 15°C and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270°, with a crosswind of 1 knot and a tailwind of 1 knot.
The total landing distance was 496 meters, which was 23% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good. After landing, the drone taxiied to the parking area, a process that took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 56 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 33 minutes. The drone used 11 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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