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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 17 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Steepen the descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft, correcting the height error before it carries into speed and touchdown point.
What happened: Crossed the threshold 43 ft agl above the target, carrying excess speed over the numbers; crossing high and fast like this usually carries the touchdown long too, and this flight touched down 281 m beyond the aim point.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: 50 ft at the threshold.
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.
Lifted off at 73 kt with 4.6° 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 122 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 545 m of runway left; then climbing at 360 fpm on average to 122 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 3,806 m runway.
Rolled from 1,981 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 100 m at the widest, and lifted off 13 m right. Airborne 72 % 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 300 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 300 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: left of the centreline all the way, fast all the way, banked until 1.2 nm, high 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.
On the glideslope from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.4 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 120 ft over).
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.
Joined 607 m left of the centreline at 1.6 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +44 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
Touchdown
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 2 times on the way down. Touchdown was 738 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 146° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 93 ft, 43 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 29 ft. Touched down 738 m in, 433 m past 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 440 fpm at the flare to 10 fpm at 11 ft, then back up to 320 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 3,806 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.1 m right of the centreline and drifted to 9.7 m right on the rollout.
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.
Touched down 738 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 317 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft V35B departed ZBAA Beijing Capital International Airport from runway 18L, accelerating over a takeoff distance of 2,814 m (74 % of the runway) and achieving liftoff at 74 kt. Ambient conditions were 30 °C with calm wind (0 kt from 090°) and no cross- or head-wind component.
Climb commenced one mile south of the airport, where the aircraft rose from 515 ft asl to 2,311 ft asl, a gain of 1,796 ft achieved in four minutes while covering nine nautical miles.
The first cruise segment began four miles north-east of Beijing, lasting three minutes and extending the flight by eight nautical miles at level altitude.
Descent started two miles south-west of Beijing, with altitude decreasing from 2,076 ft asl to 1,606 ft asl, a loss of 470 ft in two minutes over a distance of four nautical miles.
A second level cruise was initiated one mile north-west of Beijing, persisting for three minutes and adding another eight nautical miles to the route.
The next climb began six miles north of Beijing, raising the aircraft from 1,742 ft asl to 3,810 ft asl, an increase of 2,068 ft in three minutes while traversing eight nautical miles.
A brief cruise followed five miles east of Beijing, lasting two minutes and covering five nautical miles at constant altitude.
Descent resumed seven miles north-west of Tongzhou, dropping from 3,429 ft asl to 850 ft asl, a reduction of 2,579 ft in two minutes across six nautical miles.
Final approach to runway 36R at ZBAA was conducted from the south, on a heading of 355.0° at one nautical mile and 741 ft agl.
Landing on runway 36R, which is 3,801 m long, occurred with a threshold height of 93 ft agl and a threshold speed of 90 kt, both noted as above target. Touchdown was recorded 332 m beyond the touchdown zone at 78 kt, with a firm vertical speed of minus 330 fpm and a lateral offset of 5.7 m from the centreline. Local weather at the time was 29 °C, wind 1 kt from 146°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
The aircraft rolled out a total landing distance of 1,441 m (38 % of the runway) and the rollout alignment was measured 12.3 m off the centreline before exiting the runway.
Taxi-in to the parking area required two minutes and covered less than one nautical mile.
In total, the flight covered 50 nm, required 23 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 15 kg of fuel.
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