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Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 68 kt with 4.4° 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 698 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,780 m of runway left; then climbing at 870 fpm on average to 698 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 2,490 m runway.
Rolled from 116 m in, drifted 2.2 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 15 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare took all the sink out 12 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 183 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 291 m past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° right of the track, 3° of bank.
Wind 269° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 28 ft, 22 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 24 ft. Touched down 291 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 490 fpm at the flare to 10 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 8.5° 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 2,490 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.8 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.2 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 291 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departure from Groningen Airport Eelde, EHGG, commenced with a roll on runway 23. The Bulldog T1 aircraft accelerated down the 2,493-meter-long runway, reaching liftoff speed of 68 knots in a distance of 401 meters, which accounted for 16% of the available runway. The aircraft lifted off with a minimal climb gradient, taking advantage of the 1-knot headwind and negligible crosswind.
As the aircraft transitioned into the enroute climb phase, it began ascending from 705 feet above sea level to 718 feet, a gain of 13 feet in less than 1 minute, while covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The climb was initiated approximately 1 mile northeast of Donderen, a location in the Provincie Drenthe, The Netherlands. Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, maintaining an altitude of 718 feet above sea level for 2 minutes while covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, aligning with the final approach course to runway 23 at EHGG Groningen Airport Eelde from the northeast, at a heading of 233.0 degrees and an altitude of 92 feet above ground level.
The final approach and landing were executed with precision, with the aircraft touching down on the runway at a speed of 51 knots and a touchdown distance of 293 meters. The touchdown rate was an impressive -73 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.7 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 1,413 meters, accounting for 57% of the available runway. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to a stop, having completed a total flight distance of 5 nautical miles and consuming 2 kilograms of fuel.
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