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Flight Score
Smooth the climb
Enroute Climb scored 92.07 % — g force 0.00 to 0.25 g at 21 % was the weak point. Fixed, this flight scores 95.71 %.
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Start to finish · 10 stages, 9 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,786 m runway.
Rolled from 376 m in, drifted 2.8 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 31 % 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 the end of Climb 3 at 702 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 926 m of runway left; then climbing at 790 fpm on average to 702 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.
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. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 0.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 50 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, 305 m 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.
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.
Joined 257 m left of the centreline at 0.8 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 35 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 −7 kt and +4 kt on the approach speed of 70 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 12 ft, 41 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 7 ft, 43 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 278 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 160 fpm at the flare to 0 fpm at 5 ft, then back up to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 64 kt, 6 kt under the 70 kt approach speed, and 56 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 1,800 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.4 m of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° right of the track, 2.5° of bank.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 kt tail · 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 278 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 0.25 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 56 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 EGBP Cotswold Airport from runway 26, applying a take-off roll of 635 m which represented 36 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 88 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind from 270° at 2 kt; the crosswind component was 0 kt and the headwind component was 2 kt.
Climb commenced one mile west of the airport near Kemble, Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft ascended from 1,124 ft asl to 909 ft asl, an increase of 215 ft, over a period of 1 minute while covering 1 nm.
Level cruise began one mile north-west of Crudwell, Wiltshire, England. The cruise segment lasted 3 minutes and encompassed a distance of 4 nm.
For the approach and landing the aircraft used runway 08 at EGBP Cotswold Airport, whose length is 1,800 m. The threshold speed was slightly below the target at 63 kt. Touchdown occurred at 276 m down the runway with a speed of 56 kt and a vertical rate of -107 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was reported as perfect. Weather at the time mirrored departure conditions: 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 270°, crosswind 0 kt and a tailwind component of 2 kt. The total landing distance recorded was 510 m, representing 28 % of the runway.
Runway rollout was described as very good, with the aircraft remaining aligned throughout the deceleration phase.
In total the flight covered 6 nm, took 5 minutes, and consumed 9 kg of fuel.
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