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Departure
Ease back pressure in smoothly as you approach 80 kt, holding a steady rotation rate rather than snatching the controls.
What happened: On the takeoff roll the aircraft bounced before becoming fully airborne.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: a smooth, continuous pitch-up through liftoff with no secondary bounce.
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Arrival
Fly a slightly steeper approach path to cross the threshold at 38 ft agl instead of 116 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 116 ft agl against a 38 ft agl target, above the normal profile. This fault pattern is often followed by a long touchdown beyond the target point, and here the aircraft touched down at 554 m against a 385 m target.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 38 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 72 kt, 8 kt below the 80 kt target, and lifted off at 80 kt 1.5 s later, the nose coming up at 1.1° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 127 kt target, at 128 kt on average.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 897 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 438 m of runway left; gear up at 11 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,080 fpm on average to 897 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,120 m runway.
Rolled from 59 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.1 m left. Airborne 33 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 93 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way, high from 0.9 nm and left of the centreline from 0.9 nm to the threshold.
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 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.9 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 220 ft over).
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. 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 353 m right of the centreline at 1.6 nm, then inside it from 1.2 to 0.9 nm, then 40 m left of it from 0.9 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 47 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 28 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to −20 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
The flare tracked the target profile closely. The flare was flown from 116 ft agl over the threshold, well above the target height, so the aircraft was above the profile for most of the landing. Touchdown was 554 m past the threshold. The flare cannot recover height that was never lost - fly the approach down to the aim point and the flare has somewhere to start from.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
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.
From 68 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 5 s, an average deceleration of 0.37 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 699 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 116 ft, 66 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 27 ft. Touched down 554 m in, 249 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 699 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 560 fpm at the flare to 260 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.6° 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 full 699 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 12 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 15 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.
Touched down 554 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 256 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Pilatus PC-12 taxied to runway 32 at EGHR Goodwood Aerodrome and departed with a take-off distance of 408 m, which was 36 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 72 kt. Local weather at departure was 15 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt headwind and a 1 kt crosswind.
During the initial climb the aircraft rose to 1 000 ft agl in 47 seconds, averaging 925 fpm and reaching 144 kt at the top of the climb. Level flight was then maintained at 1 000 ft asl for 3 minutes, covering 6 nm while the aircraft was positioned about 1 mile north-west of EGHR.
The descent for the final approach to runway 28 began at 680 ft agl and continued to 139 ft agl in 71 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, wings level - all met; speed was not met.
Landing was made on runway 28, whose length is 699 m. The threshold height at 116 ft agl was excessively over target, while the threshold speed was a little below target at 78 kt. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft crossed the threshold high. Touchdown occurred beyond 75 % of the available runway, with a speed of 69 kt (good) and a rate of -256 fpm (fair). The touchdown point was misaligned by 12.1 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 665 m, representing 95 % of the runway, and the rollout was slightly misaligned by 14.0 m from the centreline.
Local weather at landing was 16 °C with wind 1 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt headwind and no crosswind. The total flight covered 10 nm in 6 minutes and consumed 25 kg of fuel.
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