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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Level the wings with coordinated aileron to hold bank angle near zero during the initial climb, starting from 1.3°.
What happened: Bank angle was elevated during the initial climb and excess bank usually persists into the second climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, wings level with bank angle near zero degrees.
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 85 kt with 1.7° 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 118 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 684 m of runway left; then climbing at 350 fpm on average to 118 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 1,796 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 2.9 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 26 % 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 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 2.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.9 nm (up to 1,030 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,228 m right of the centreline at 2.6 nm, then inside the band from 0.8 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
Very good landing flare
No wind recorded: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, 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 66 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 28 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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.
Touched down 476 m in, 171 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 350 fpm at 33 ft to 170 fpm at touchdown. 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 1,524 m of the 3,282 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline.
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 476 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 208B taxied from the parking area to the runway for 4 minutes, covering 1 nm, and departed from runway 26 at LICD Lampedusa. Take-off required 2,222 m, which was 124 % of the runway length. Liftoff was achieved at 85 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 27 °C, wind 8 kt from 350°, giving a crosswind component of 8 kt and no headwind.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 19 seconds, averaging 289 fpm and reaching 128 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 207 ft asl to 17,030 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 47 nm while passing overhead Lampedusa. Cruise continued at 17,100 ft asl for 7 minutes, covering 19 nm, beginning 28 miles east of Mahdia. Descent from 16,932 ft asl to 4,627 ft asl occurred in 8 minutes over 17 nm, starting 9 miles north-east of Mahdia. A level segment at 4,600 ft asl lasted 2 minutes for 6 nm, beginning 3 miles south of Ksar Hellal. The aircraft then climbed from 4,620 ft asl to 12,275 ft asl in 8 minutes, covering 17 nm, starting 6 miles west of Mahdia. Level flight at 12,400 ft asl continued for 5 minutes, covering 14 nm, beginning overhead DTMB Habib Bourguiba Monastir. A final descent from 12,669 ft asl to 1,862 ft asl took 8 minutes over 14 nm, beginning 5 miles north-east of Port el Kantaoui, with a brief level-off at 1,900 ft asl.
The approach to DTNH Hammamet was on runway 09, whose length is 3,282 m. The threshold height was reported as good. The threshold speed was slightly above target at 81 kt. The flare was described as very good. Touchdown occurred at 68 kt, noted as fast, with a smooth touchdown rate of minus 128 fpm and perfect runway alignment. No bounce was observed. Touchdown distance was good at 476 m, and total landing distance was 991 m, representing 30 % of the runway. Runway rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 14.7 m.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area for 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 139 nm, lasted 65 minutes, and used 212 kg of fuel.
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