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Avoid steep turns at low altitude
Below a thousand feet the aeroplane is slow, heavy and close to the ground. A steep turn loses lift, raises the stall speed and flattens the climb just when the gradient matters most. A normal turn on course is a rate one — fifteen degrees or so, twenty-five at the outside, this penalty is to acknowledge when a turn has stopped being a turn and become a manoeuvre.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 87 kt with 6.3° 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 433 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,395 ft of runway left; then climbing at 870 fpm on average to 433 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 6,693 ft runway.
Rolled from 253 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 16 ft at the widest, and lifted off 16 ft left. Airborne 36 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 4° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 150 ft above the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft past the threshold: 4° here, which is about 420 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 70 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 1,310 ft right of the centreline at 2.5 nm, then inside the band from 0.9 nm to the threshold.
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
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 92 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 10 ft, 40 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,075 ft in, close to the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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.
From 8 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 120 fpm before coming down at 140 fpm to touch. The nose came up 2.3° 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 5,000 ft of the 6,693 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 10 ft left of the centreline and drifted to 52 ft 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.
The 1,075 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Baron 58P departed from runway 27 at KTEX Telluride Regional Airport. The takeoff distance was 2,234 ft, which was 33% of the total runway length. The liftoff speed was 88 kn. The local weather at departure was 35°F with no wind.
The enroute climb started overhead KTEX Telluride Regional Airport, climbing from 9,497 ft asl to 10,211 ft asl, an increase of 714 ft in 1 minute and covering 2 nm. The enroute level cruise started 1 mile southwest of KTEX and lasted 3 minutes, covering 4 nm.
The final approach to runway 27 at KTEX was from the east, heading 274.0° at 2 nm and 1,000 ft agl. The landing on runway 27 had a length of 6,693 ft. The height at threshold was 11 ft agl, and the speed at threshold was 86 kn. The touchdown occurred 1,074 ft from the threshold with a touchdown speed of 75 kn and a VSI of -147 ft/m. The local weather at landing was 34°F with no wind.
The total landing distance was 2,142 ft, which was 32% of the runway length. Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 9 nm, taking 6 minutes and using 10 lbs of fuel.
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