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Departure
Ease the back pressure on the yoke after rotation so the pitch change is smoother and g force stays lower.
What happened: During the initial climb the average g force reached 1.8 g, a high value for that phase.
Watch for: G meter: smooth, steady value in the normal climb band
Arrival
Make one smooth, continuous back-pressure through the flare to about 9.5° nose-up, holding it steady rather than pumping the elevator before touchdown.
What happened: The flare was pumped, with pitch reversing several times as the sink was most arrested at 9.5 ft; pumped flares like this usually carry through to a firm touchdown, which happened here at 339 fpm.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold a steady nose-up pitch of 9.5° through the flare, smoothly to touchdown.
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.
Rotated at 89 kt, 5 kt above the 84 kt target, and lifted off at 90 kt 0.6 s later, the nose coming up at 15.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 125 kt, 9 kt over its 116 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 953 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 8,343 ft of runway left; then climbing at 820 fpm on average to 953 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 11,031 ft runway.
Rolled from 780 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 32 ft at the widest, and lifted off 32 ft right. Airborne 22 % 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 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.
At the 500 ft gate: no landing flap set.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap all the way, banked until 1.8 nm, sinking too fast until 1.7 nm, slow until 0.9 nm, right of the centreline from 0.4 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 510 ft below the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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.
Outside the 1° band 3 times; furthest 1,160 ft left at 2.7 nm.
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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.7 nm, where the final began, to 2.0 nm (up to +94 kt), then inside the band to 1.1 nm, then slow to 0.9 nm (up to −8 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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 wandered off the target profile. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 3 times on the way down. Touchdown was 1,537 ft past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
No wind recorded: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 4° of bank.
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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 45 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 38 ft; ballooned 7 ft from 3 ft. Touched down 1,537 ft in, 537 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 290 fpm before coming down at 340 fpm to touch. 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 first 5,000 ft of the 11,031 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6 ft right of the centreline.
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 1,537 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 339 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Departure from Mactan Cebu International Airport's runway 22L was smooth, with the DA62 aircraft rolling down the 11,223-foot runway in 2,508 feet, utilizing only 22% of the available length. Liftoff speed was achieved at 90 knots, as the aircraft lifted off into the local weather conditions of 76°F temperature and a 4-knot headwind from 239°. The initial climb phase began shortly after departure, with the aircraft ascending from 1,033 feet above sea level to 3,066 feet, a vertical gain of 2,032 feet, in just 2 minutes while covering 5 nautical miles.
As the DA62 continued its journey, it entered the enroute descent phase, starting 1 mile east of the airport. The aircraft descended from 3,079 feet above sea level to 561 feet, a decrease of 2,518 feet, in the same 2-minute timeframe, covering 4 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 22L was initiated from the northeast, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 223.0° at 2 nautical miles and 452 feet above ground level. The landing was executed successfully, with a threshold speed of 84 knots and a touchdown speed of 72 knots, both within acceptable limits. The touchdown distance of 1,531 feet was also within the desired range, although the touchdown rate of -241 feet per minute was slightly below optimal. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 14 feet from the centerline.
The DA62 completed its flight, covering a total distance of 13 nautical miles in 7 minutes, utilizing 9 pounds of fuel. The local weather conditions remained consistent throughout the flight, with a temperature of 76°F and a 4-knot headwind from 239°. The aircraft's performance was satisfactory, with all key performance figures within acceptable limits, demonstrating a safe and efficient operation.
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