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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Maintain the centreline
See Departure Roll
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 50 kt with 7.1° 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 94 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,972 ft of runway left.
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 5,206 ft runway.
Rolled from 2,195 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 25 ft at the widest, and lifted off 26 ft right. Airborne 49 % 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
Every check met from 0.3 nm, about 200 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate.
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 2.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 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: 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 12,410 ft right of the centreline at 2.9 nm, then inside the band from 0.3 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.9 nm, where the final began, to 0.4 nm (up to +40 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 090° at 3 kt · 2 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.
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 20 ft. Touched down 572 ft in, 428 ft short of 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.
The sink went from 220 fpm at the flare to 130 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 5,000 ft of the 7,194 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 11 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 18 ft left at the widest.
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 572 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.27 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
Departing Coari Airport (SWKO) in the Amazonas region of Brazil, the aircraft began its taxiing process from the parking area to the runway, completing the journey in under a minute and covering a distance of less than a nautical mile. Upon reaching runway 10, the departure roll commenced, with the aircraft taking off in a relatively short distance of 2,656 feet, which accounted for 51% of the runway's length. The liftoff speed was achieved at 54 knots, and the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 80°F and a gentle headwind of 3 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from Coari Airport, it began its enroute climb, reaching an altitude of 1,427 feet above sea level in just 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The climb phase was followed by a level cruise, which lasted for 79 minutes and covered a distance of 130 nautical miles. The aircraft then commenced its enroute descent, reducing its altitude from 1,331 feet to 340 feet above sea level in 3 minutes, while covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 15 at Tefé Airport (SBTF) was initiated from the northwest, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 137.0° at an altitude of 155 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 15 was executed smoothly, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 45 knots and a touchdown distance of 564 feet, which was within the acceptable limits. The touchdown rate was also satisfactory at -116 feet per minute. Although the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 18 feet from the centerline, the runway rollout alignment was very good. The total landing distance was 941 feet, accounting for 13% of the runway's length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in under a minute, covering a distance of less than a nautical mile. The total flight distance was 138 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 84 minutes, with a fuel consumption of 27 pounds.
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