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Monitor your taxi speed
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Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 111 kt with 4.3° 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 791 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 835 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,710 fpm on average to 791 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 1,512 m runway.
Rolled from 25 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 9.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 10 m right, in 13 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 35 % 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 80 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, 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 6× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 59 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
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 010° at 2 kt · 0 kt head · 2 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 83 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 246 m in, 59 m short of 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 380 fpm at 20 ft to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.4° 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 1,763 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 6.9 m left 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 246 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.35 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Cockspur PH100, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KTRM Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport. This process took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 30, and the aircraft lifted off after a takeoff distance of 522 meters, which was 35% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 112 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 18°C, with a wind speed of 16 knots at a direction of 15°. This resulted in a crosswind of 14 knots and a headwind of 8 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile west of Thermal, California. The climb took place from an altitude of 707 feet above sea level to 31,322 feet above sea level, an increase of 30,614 feet, in 13 minutes and covering a distance of 17 nautical miles.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, starting 3 miles northwest of Thousand Palms, California. This phase of the flight lasted 9 minutes and covered a distance of 62 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 1 mile east of Los Serranos, California. The descent took place from an altitude of 31,453 feet above sea level to 4,026 feet above sea level, a decrease of 27,427 feet, in 13 minutes and covering a distance of 48 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting 2 miles northeast of Chatsworth, California. This phase of the flight lasted only 2 minutes and covered a distance of 5 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, starting overhead Northridge, California. The descent took place from an altitude of 3,996 feet above sea level to 1,962 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,033 feet, in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 08 at KBUR Hollywood Burbank Airport took place from the west, with the aircraft heading 90.0° at an altitude of 1,234 feet above ground level and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway. The landing took place on runway 08, which had a length of 1,763 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 92 knots.
The touchdown distance was good at 244 meters, and the touchdown speed was 83 knots, which was also good. The touchdown rate was good at -186 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 13°C, with a wind speed of 2 knots at a direction of 10°. The crosswind was 2 knots, and the headwind was 0 knots.
The total landing distance was 552 meters, which was 31% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area from the runway, taking 3 minutes and covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 145 nautical miles, and the flight took 50 minutes. The aircraft used 283 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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