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Spacing cues are relative to your eyepoint, so two simmers with different FOV settings following the same wingtip cue fly patterns half a mile different in width, and a wide FOV compresses depth so the runway on base looks further away than it is, biasing you towards a late turn. Pick a camera position and FOV, save it, and never change it, because every judgement you calibrate is calibrated to that picture.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,800 m runway.
Rolled from 772 m in, never more than 0.7 m off the centreline. Airborne 50 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to 525 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 571 m of runway left; then climbing at 950 fpm on average to 525 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.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare.
Over the threshold
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 27 ft, 180 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 13 ft, 37 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 266 m in, close to 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 570 fpm at the flare to 30 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.7° on the way down. Into the flare at 83 kt, 13 kt over the 70 kt approach speed, and 68 kt at touchdown.
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 1,524 m of the 1,786 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.6 m of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 0 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 266 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 0.24 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 68 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 departed Cotswold Airport (EGBP) from runway 08, using a take-off distance of 937 m which represented 52 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 83 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, no cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind.
The aircraft entered the right-hand traffic pattern for runway 08, covering a distance of less than 1 nm in 27 seconds.
Subsequently it proceeded on the right-hand crosswind leg, again traveling less than 1 nm and completing the segment in 10 seconds.
During the downwind turn the aircraft described a 2 nm arc, turning to an angle of 54.4° relative to the runway heading.
The downwind leg itself measured 1 nm and was flown in 39 seconds.
The base-leg turn was a 2 nm maneuver that brought the aircraft to an angle of 95.2° to the runway.
The base leg that followed was less than 1 nm in length and was completed in 12 seconds.
The final turn to the runway was a 2 nm arc executed over 100 seconds.
Landing was made on runway 26, which is 1,786 m long. The threshold speed was slightly above target at 77 kt. Touchdown occurred 265 m down the runway at 68 kt with a vertical speed of minus 32 fpm, and the aircraft aligned perfectly with the centreline. Weather at the time was 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, no cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 566 m, representing 32 % of the runway, and the alignment remained perfect throughout the deceleration phase.
In total the flight covered 8 nm, lasted 5 minutes, and consumed 10 kg of fuel.
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