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Departure
Center the rudder and wings to stop the heading deviation at -1.9° as soon as it begins.
What happened: Heading wandered off during the initial climb and the drift was still present through the second climb segment, which usually keeps the runway track unrestored.
Watch for: Heading indicator, holding runway track within a few degrees
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on approach to bring speed back to 73 kt by the gate.
What happened: The aircraft was too fast at the stabilisation gate, 45 kt above the target of 73 kt.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 73 kt at the gate
See Arrival Approach
A good takeoff has a defined shape. It also has a defined end. For an airliner that's thrust reduction and acceleration, commonly somewhere around 1,000 to 1,500 ft above the airfield depending on the operator, while for a light aircraft it's established at Vy with the flaps on schedule. Most simmers have no defined end to their takeoff, which is exactly why it never gets judged.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 62 kt, 11 kt below the 73 kt target, and lifted off at 65 kt 1.3 s later, the nose coming up at 6.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 102 kt, 22 kt under its 124 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 812 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 417 m of runway left; then climbing at 660 fpm on average to 812 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 1,110 m runway.
Rolled from 76 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.4 m right, in 22 kn of crosswind from the right. 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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 22 kt above the approach speed of 73 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.3 nm, about 530 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 640 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. 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 4 nm, never more than 420 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 1.3 nm (up to +58 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
Perfect landing flare
12 kt across from the left, which takes about 10° of crab to hold the centreline at 68 kt. Touched down with 10° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 313° at 19 kt · 13 kt head · 12 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.
Side view — the last 1,043 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 17 ft, 33 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 264 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 1,043 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 400 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.7° 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 1,043 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.2 m left of the centreline and drifted to 6.8 m left on the rollout, back to 1.8 m left by the end.
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 264 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 208B taxied from the parking area to runway 24 at PAMY Mekoryuk Airport in 11 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Takeoff was made on runway 24. The aircraft used 373 m of runway, which is 34 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 62 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 3 °C, wind 23 kt from 330°, giving a 23 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 70 seconds, averaging 540 fpm and reaching 107 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 864 ft asl to 1 454 ft asl in 2 minutes while covering 3 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-west of PAMY.
The aircraft then levelled at 1 500 ft asl for 9 minutes, covering 23 nm, starting about 1 mile north-west of PAMY.
Descent began from 1 486 ft asl to 737 ft asl in 6 minutes, covering 15 nm, starting 10 miles south-west of Tununak, with a brief level-off at 900 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 34 at PAOO Toksook Bay Airport descended from 703 ft agl to 36 ft agl in 162 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met. Configuration on final was flap position 3 at 610 ft agl with an airspeed of 108 kt.
Landing on runway 34 was made with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 74 kt, noted as well above target. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 264 m down the runway at 68 kt, a little fast, with a descent rate of minus 63 fpm. The touchdown point was 3.2 m off the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 638 m, representing 61 % of the 1 043 m runway, and the rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was temperature 2 °C, wind 13 kt from 309°, giving a 9 kt cross-wind component and a 9 kt head-wind component.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 48 nm in 26 minutes and used 79 kg of fuel.
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