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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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The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 113 kt with 5.4° 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 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 980 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 648 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,370 fpm on average to 980 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 1,524 m runway.
Rolled from 64 m in, never more than 1.3 m off the centreline, in 5 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 44 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 90 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 21× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 18 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 8° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 310° at 13 kt · 10 kt head · 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.
From 80 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.37 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 22 ft, 28 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 275 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 520 fpm at 22 ft to 140 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 first 1,524 m of the 1,983 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.8 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.6 m right by the end of 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.
The 275 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Beechcraft King Air 350A started with a taxi to runway 32 at KBAK Columbus Muni, with a distance of less than 1 nm and a duration of 4 minutes. The departure roll from runway 32 at KBAK Columbus Muni had a takeoff distance of 609 m, with 40% of the runway used. The liftoff speed was 113 kn, with local weather conditions showing a temperature of 23 °C and wind at 13 kn at 340°, resulting in a crosswind of 5 kn and a headwind of 12 kn.
The enroute climb began 1 mile northwest of KBAK Columbus Muni, climbing from 1,695 ft asl to 8,076 ft asl, covering a total increase of 6,381 ft in 3 minutes over a distance of 7 nm, finishing 4 miles east of 3FK Franklin Flying Field Franklin. The enroute descent started 4 miles east of Franklin Flying Field Franklin, descending from 8,567 ft asl to 7,820 ft asl in 0 minutes over a distance of 2 nm, finishing 4 miles southeast of Franklin.
Another enroute climb began 4 miles southeast of Franklin, climbing from 7,748 ft asl to 22,972 ft asl, an increase of 15,224 ft in 8 minutes over a distance of 30 nm, finishing 2 miles east of 08IN Whybrew Fld Fortville. The subsequent enroute descent began 2 miles northeast of 08IN Whybrew Fld Fortville, descending from 23,348 ft asl to 23,036 ft asl in 1 minute over a distance of 3 nm, finishing 1 mile southwest of Pendleton.
An additional enroute climb began 1 mile southwest of Pendleton, climbing from 23,033 ft asl to 24,158 ft asl, an increase of 1,125 ft in 2 minutes over a distance of 10 nm, finishing 1 mile north of Anderson. The level cruise followed 2 miles north of Anderson, covering a distance of 11 nm in 2 minutes, finishing 4 miles northeast of Alexandria.
The next enroute climb began 5 miles south of Fairmount, climbing from 24,592 ft asl to 25,480 ft asl, an increase of 888 ft in 1 minute over a distance of 3 nm, finishing 3 miles southeast of Fairmount. This was followed by a level cruise starting 3 miles west of Matthews, covering a distance of 97 nm in 18 minutes, finishing 2 miles northwest of KOEB Branch Co Meml Coldwater.
The enroute descent began 2 miles northwest of KOEB Branch Co Meml Coldwater, descending from 25,736 ft asl to 3,175 ft asl, a decrease of 22,561 ft in 20 minutes over a distance of 91 nm, finishing 1 mile east of Bloomfield Hills. The subsequent level cruise began 2 miles east of Bloomfield Hills, covering a distance of 2 nm in 1 minute, finishing overhead Troy.
The enroute climb started overhead Troy, climbing from 3,117 ft asl to 3,293 ft asl, an increase of 176 ft in 1 minute over a distance of 2 nm, finishing 2 miles northwest of Sterling Heights. This was followed by another level cruise that started 2 miles northwest of Sterling Heights, covering a distance of 10 nm in 4 minutes, finishing 1 mile north of Pontiac.
The enroute descent began 1 mile north of Pontiac, descending from 3,040 ft asl to 2,786 ft asl, a decrease of 254 ft in 0 minutes over a distance of 1 nm, finishing 1 mile north of Pontiac. The landing on runway 27L at KPTK Oakland County Intl had a runway length of 1,983 m, with a height at threshold of 23 ft agl and a speed at threshold of 103 kn.
The touchdown on runway 27L at KPTK Oakland County Intl occurred 275 m from the threshold with a touchdown speed of 92 kn and a touchdown VSI of -139 ft/m. The landing rollout on runway 27L was 136 m, with a total landing distance of 435 m, which accounted for 22% of the runway. The local weather during landing showed a temperature of 18 °C and wind at 13 kn at 310°, resulting in a crosswind of 9 kn and a headwind of 10 kn.
Finally, the taxi from runway 27L at KPTK Oakland County Intl to the parking area covered a distance of less than 1 nm with a duration of 3 minutes. The total flight distance was 277 nm, taking a total of 72 minutes and using 390 kg of fuel.
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