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Monitor your taxi speed
See Departure Taxi
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 69 kt with 8.3° 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 458 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,376 m of runway left; then climbing at 280 fpm on average to 458 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 2,936 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 5.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.8 m left. Airborne 11 % 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 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 3.0 nm, then high to 1.6 nm (up to 500 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 2.0 nm, then drifted 102 m left between 2.0 and 1.3 nm, then back inside it from 1.3 to 0.3 nm, then 17 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 210° at 5 kt · 5 kt head · 2 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 60 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 18 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 337 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 380 fpm at 22 ft to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.1° 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 2,378 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.4 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.8 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 337 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 began with a 7-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at LEST Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport. The departure roll on runway 17 covered a distance of 383 meters, which was 13% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was 70 knots. The local weather at the time of departure was 18°C with a wind speed of 10 knots coming from 140°, resulting in a crosswind of 4 knots and a headwind of 9 knots.
After taking off, the flight entered a level cruise phase that lasted 2 minutes and covered 3 nautical miles. The enroute climb began 2 miles northeast of Vedra and saw the plane climbing from 1,963 feet above sea level to 4,039 feet, an increase of 2,077 feet over 2 minutes covering 4 nm.
Once reaching the cruising altitude, the aircraft covered 10 nm during a 7-minute level cruise phase overhead Ribeira, before starting a descent 3 miles southeast of Cuntis. The descent from 3,925 ft to 2,964 ft took 2 minutes to cover 5 nm.
After the descent, another level cruise phase commenced 3 miles southeast of Morana, lasting 9 minutes and covering 14 nm. The final approach to runway 19 at LEVX Vigo Airport came from the north with a heading of 190.0° at 2 nm and 1,019 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 19 at LEVX Vigo Airport saw the aircraft touchdown after a distance of 334 meters at a speed of 62 knots, with a touchdown rate of -76 ft/min. The touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.4 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 760 meters, which accounted for 32% of the runway length.
After landing, a 3-minute taxi brought the aircraft to the parking area covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 43 nm, with a total flight time of 30 minutes and fuel consumption of 118 kg. The flight was successfully completed with a safe landing at LEVX Vigo Airport.
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