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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 140 kt with 6.2° 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 409 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,482 ft of runway left; then climbing at 910 fpm on average to 409 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.
Plan view the roll down the 7,102 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 14 ft right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 5 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 59 % 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 2.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 140 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.
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 3,130 ft right of the centreline at 2.9 nm, then inside it from 1.9 to 1.0 nm, then drifted 110 ft right between 1.0 and 0.6 nm, then inside the band from 0.6 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 080° at 2 kt · 2 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 117 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 52 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 6,097 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,802 ft in, 802 ft past 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 6,097 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 500 fpm at 24 ft to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.1° 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 6,097 ft of the 8,361 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 10 ft left of the centreline, and steered back to 1 ft 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.
Touched down 1,802 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.15 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The B-2 Spirit aircraft began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KOQU Quonset State Airport, a process that took approximately 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 34, with the aircraft covering 69% of the runway's length in a takeoff distance of 4,921 feet. The liftoff speed was recorded at 141 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 38°F temperature and a wind speed of 11 knots at 288 degrees. The crosswind component was 6 knots, while the headwind component was 9 knots. The enroute climb began approximately 1 mile northwest of KOQU Quonset State Airport, with the aircraft ascending from 500 feet above sea level to 38,974 feet above sea level, a vertical increase of 38,475 feet. This climb phase covered a distance of 124 nautical miles and took 21 minutes to complete.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 25 miles southeast of KSCU Scarborough Airport in Maine, United States. This phase lasted for 357 minutes and covered a distance of 4,172 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, which started 16 miles south of Bazarnyye Mataki in Tatarstan, Russia. The descent phase saw the aircraft decrease its altitude from 38,476 feet above sea level to 1,124 feet above sea level, a vertical decrease of 37,352 feet. This phase took 16 minutes to complete and covered a distance of 68 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 05 at UWWW Kurumoch International Airport was made from the southwest, with the aircraft heading at 61.0 degrees at an altitude of 2 nautical miles and 686 feet above ground level. The landing took place on runway 05, which had a length of 8,361 feet. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was recorded at 132 knots. The touchdown point was 425 feet beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 122 knots and a touchdown rate of -190 feet per minute, both of which were considered good.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 11 feet. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 25°F temperature and a wind speed of 2 knots at 80 degrees. The crosswind component was 1 knot, while the headwind component was 2 knots. The total landing distance was 5,820 feet, which accounted for 70% of the runway's length. The runway rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft took 1 minute to taxi to the parking area from the runway, covering less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 4,369 nautical miles, which was covered in 403 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 111,991 pounds of fuel during the flight.
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