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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 89 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 77 kt against a target of 89 kt, running 12 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 89 kt.
Arrival
Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 457 m instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 55 m past the target, landing at 512 m against the 457 m aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 69 kt, 3 kt above the 66 kt target, and lifted off at 71 kt 0.6 s later, the nose coming up at 2.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 77 kt, 12 kt under its 89 kt target.
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 871 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 660 m of runway left; then climbing at 980 fpm on average to 871 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 1,275 m runway.
Rolled from 46 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline, in 6 kn of crosswind from the 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.7 nm, where the final began, 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 50 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 1.7 nm, never more than 198 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +3 kt and +20 kt on the approach speed of 71 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
Perfect landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 66 kt. Touched down with the nose 4° into wind, wings level.
Wind 240° at 10 kt · 9 kt head · 3 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 57 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 1,522 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 40 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 13 ft. Touched down 512 m in, 207 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 1,522 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 200 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.2° 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 full 1,522 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.8 m of it down 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.
Touched down 512 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 22 at KUIL Quillayute Airport in 13 minutes, covering approximately 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 22, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 71 kt and became airborne after traveling 448 m, which represented 35 % of the runway length. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 170°, a cross-wind component of 7 kt and a head-wind component of 3 kt.
The climb began overhead KUIL, rising from 573 ft asl to 1,086 ft asl, an increase of 513 ft achieved in less than one minute while covering less than 1 nm.
Level cruise commenced still over KUIL and continued for 32 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 63 nm.
Descent started one mile north of KHQM Bowerman Airport, descending from 1,694 ft asl to 594 ft asl, a loss of 1,099 ft in 4 minutes while traversing 7 nm.
The final approach to runway 24 at KHQM Bowerman Airport was flown from the east on a heading of 259.0° at 1 nm and 574 ft agl, followed by a further descent from 650 ft agl to 42 ft agl in 86 seconds, during which the aircraft met the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 24 was executed with a threshold speed of 74 kt, slightly above the target. Touchdown occurred 81 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 66 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 42 fpm and perfect runway alignment. Local weather at the time was 16 °C with a wind of 11 kt from 240°, a cross-wind component of 4 kt and a head-wind component of 11 kt.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 709 m, representing 47 % of the runway, and alignment during the rollout was very good.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 4 minutes, traveling less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 76 nm, lasted 47 minutes, and consumed 14 kg of fuel.
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