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Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 14 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 15 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
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 46 kt with 2.4° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 386 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 359 m of runway left; then climbing at 710 fpm on average to 386 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.
Plan view the roll down the 906 m runway.
Rolled from 61 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 m left. Airborne 21 % 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.
Right-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the go-around. This lap ended in a go-around; the landing that followed was flown without circuit legs.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 0.8 nm out at 79 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Good: full marks on the turn.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.3 points, for the nose going up and down 2 times.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, 2° of bank.
Wind 269° at 2 kt · 1 kt head · 1 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 35 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 3 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 906 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 20 ft, 8 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 243 m in, 62 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 906 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 420 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 8.2° 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 906 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 15 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 243 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Taylorcraft BC-12D taxied to runway 22 at EGHN Isle of Wight / Sandown Airport and commenced the departure roll. The aircraft lifted off after a take-off distance of 213 m, representing 23 % of the runway, at a liftoff speed of 46 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, including a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind component.
The aircraft entered a right-hand pattern from runway 22, covering less than 1 nm in 18 seconds.
A right-hand pattern cross-wind leg followed, also less than 1 nm and completed in 17 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft flew a 1 nm arc to a 45° angle to the runway, recording a turn angle of 60.7°.
The downwind leg extended 1 nm and was flown in 60 seconds.
The base-leg turn was a 1 nm maneuver to a 45° angle to the runway with a turn angle of 41.6°.
The base leg itself was less than 1 nm and lasted 14 seconds.
The final turn to the runway approach was less than 1 nm and required 32 seconds.
A go-around was executed on runway 22 at EGHN, climbing to 196 ft AGL before re-establishing the approach.
The subsequent final approach descended from 241 ft AGL to 29 ft AGL in 13 seconds and satisfied the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 22 was achieved with a threshold speed of 39 kt, slightly below the target. Touchdown occurred 240 m down the runway at 26 kt with a smooth vertical rate of minus 116 fpm; the touchdown point was 14.8 m off the centreline. The total landing distance measured 285 m, equivalent to 31 % of the 906 m runway, and the rollout ended 15.3 m off centreline.
In total the flight covered 9 nm, took 8 (units as given), and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
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