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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Know your rotation speed
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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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 109 kt with 4.8° 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 760 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 346 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,110 fpm on average to 760 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 1,072 m runway.
Rolled from 86 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.4 m left. Airborne 46 % 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 470 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,469 m right of the centreline, then inside it from 2.4 to 1.0 nm, then drifted 38 m left between 1.0 and 0.8 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +8 kt and +41 kt on the approach speed of 80 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
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° right of the track, 9° of bank.
Wind 192° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 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 88 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.28 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 1,025 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 358 m in, 54 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 1,025 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 560 fpm at 23 ft to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.5° 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 full 1,025 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8.2 m left of the centreline and drifted to 15 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 358 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Beechcraft Baron G58, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Milano-Bresso Airfield, taking approximately 9 minutes to cover a distance of 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 18, with the aircraft lifting off after a takeoff distance of 424 meters, which was 40% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 110 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 8 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 4 knots blowing from 197 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 4 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile southwest of Sesto San Giovanni, and climbed from an altitude of 1,251 feet above sea level to 2,582 feet, an increase of 1,331 feet in just 1 minute, while covering a distance of 1 nautical mile.
The enroute level cruise phase began overhead Bresso, lasting for 14 minutes and covering a distance of 29 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 01 at Lugano Airport, approaching from the south at a heading of 19.0 degrees, 2 nautical miles from the runway and at an altitude of 617 feet above ground level.
The landing took place on runway 01, which had a length of 1,025 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was above the target speed of 90 knots. The touchdown distance was good, at 357 meters, but the touchdown speed of 81 knots was a little fast. The touchdown rate was good, at -194 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 10.2 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 14 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 1 knot blowing from 191 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 0 knots and a tailwind of 1 knot. The total landing distance was 592 meters, which was 58% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 7.9 meters from the centerline. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, taking approximately 1 minute to cover a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 36 nautical miles, taking a total of 25 minutes, and the aircraft used 12 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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