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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Maintain the centreline
See Departure Roll
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 80 kt with 1.6° 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 568 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 471 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,060 fpm on average to 568 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 1,936 m runway.
Rolled from 367 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 92 m at the widest, and lifted off 93 m right. Airborne 65 % 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 0 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 146 m in, 159 m short of 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 960 fpm at 46 ft to 330 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 7.1° 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 full 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.9 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.6 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 146 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.48 G arrival bounced 3 times.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 10 at MYBS South Bimini Airport. The DHC-2 Beaver aircraft took off with a takeoff distance of 946 meters, which accounted for 49% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 80 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot from 270 degrees, resulting in a negligible crosswind and a slight tailwind.
As the aircraft climbed out of MYBS South Bimini Airport, it reached an altitude of 1,476 feet above sea level, an increase of 881 feet from the initial altitude of 595 feet. This climb was achieved in just 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The enroute level cruise phase lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile, during which the aircraft maintained a steady altitude.
The enroute descent phase began overhead MYBS South Bimini Airport and lasted for 2 minutes, during which the aircraft descended from 1,575 feet above sea level to 71 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,504 feet. This descent covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The final approach to landing was initiated from an altitude of 1 nautical mile above the ground, and the aircraft descended to 70 feet above ground level before beginning its final descent.
The final approach and touchdown phase was characterized by a descent from 44 feet above ground level to 0 feet above ground level in just 4 seconds. The touchdown speed was 56 knots, which was considered good, and the touchdown rate was firm at -329 feet per minute. The touchdown distance was also good at 141 meters. The local weather conditions remained the same, with a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot from 270 degrees.
Following touchdown, the aircraft underwent a landing rollout, during which it covered a distance of 173 meters. The total flight distance was 6 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 7 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 14 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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