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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 127 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 97 kt against a target of 127 kt, running 30 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 127 kt.
Arrival
Fly a slightly steeper approach path to cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 72 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 72 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, above the normal profile. This fault pattern is often followed by a long touchdown beyond the target point, and here the aircraft touched down at 629 m against a 457 m target.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 8.2° and 14.2°, and the speed between 84 kt and 110 kt.
Once clear of the runway the nose moved through a wide range, and the speed moved with it. Set the climb attitude, hold it and trim, and give the speed a few seconds to settle before correcting it with a degree or two of pitch. Chasing the airspeed with large pitch changes makes it wander more.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,915 m runway.
Rolled from 1,579 m in, drifted 11 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 14 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 70 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 923 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 636 m of runway left; gear up at 82 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 960 fpm on average to 923 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 86 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 86 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way.
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 270 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. 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 5 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −16 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
The flare tracked the target profile closely
The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 629 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 72 ft, 22 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft. Touched down 629 m in, 325 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 330 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.0° on the way down. Into the flare at 73 kt, 13 kt under the 86 kt approach speed, and 64 kt at touchdown.
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 2,476 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 3 m of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 272° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 0 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 629 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 61 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 s, an average deceleration of 0.05 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.
The rest of the report
The Pilatus PC-12 taxied from the parking area to runway 10 at LIMJ Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 10 with a take-off distance of 2,056 m, which was 71 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 81 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 13 °C, wind 16 kt from 040°, giving a crosswind component of 15 kt and a headwind component of 7 kt.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 55 seconds, averaging 971 fpm and reaching 110 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 937 ft asl to 17,596 ft asl in 7 minutes, covering 14 nm, beginning about 1 mile east of LIMJ.
Cruise was level at 18,000 ft asl for 15 minutes, covering 70 nm, starting 13 miles south of Genoa.
Descent began from 17,999 ft asl to 1,674 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 75 nm, starting overhead Tizzano Val Parma, with a brief level-off at 5,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 30 at LIPE Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport descended from 1,606 ft agl to 90 ft agl in 197 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met. Configuration was landing gear down at 2,616 ft agl at 90 kt, and final flap position 3 at 1,899 ft agl at 88 kt.
Landing on runway 30, whose length is 2,476 m, the threshold height at 72 ft agl was well above target and the threshold speed of 76 kt was a little below target. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 190 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 64 kt, with a descent rate of minus 57 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. Local weather at landing was temperature 9 °C, wind 2 kt from 272°, crosswind 1 kt and headwind 2 kt. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,354 m, 55 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
The aircraft taxied to the parking area from the runway in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 167 nm in 52 minutes and used 181 kg of fuel.
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