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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
In the last part of the flare, hold a little more back pressure to fully arrest the sink before the mains touch down.
What happened: Threshold speed and height were within limits, and the flare began on time and arrested the sink normally; even so, the touchdown rate was 295 fpm, a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smooth, gentle rate at touchdown
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 154 kt, 7 kt above the 147 kt target, and lifted off at 165 kt 3.9 s later, the nose coming up at 2.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 185 kt, 19 kt over its 166 kt target.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 932 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,005 ft of runway left; gear up at 18 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,240 fpm on average to 932 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 8,853 ft runway.
Rolled from 119 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 10 ft at the widest, and lifted off 6 ft left. Airborne 72 % 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.
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: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and speed more than 35 kt above the approach speed of 141 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.6 nm, about 920 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 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 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 420 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 320 ft 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.8 nm, then fast to 2.6 nm (up to +33 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 (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 359° at 2 kt · 1 kt head · 1 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 6,037 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 48 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 42 ft. Touched down 1,439 ft in, 439 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 6,037 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 710 fpm at the flare to 300 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 6,037 ft of the 10,968 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 10 ft of it down 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 1,439 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 295 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Departing from Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the CRJ900 began its journey on runway 36R, taking off with a distance of 6,391 feet, which accounted for 74% of the available runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 166 knots, with a temperature of 75°F and a calm wind at 216°.
As the aircraft climbed out of Charlotte, it began its enroute climb, reaching an altitude of 32,798 feet in 16 minutes, covering a distance of 94 nautical miles. The climb was followed by a brief level cruise phase, lasting 3 minutes and covering 23 nautical miles, before another climb phase took the aircraft to 34,799 feet. The aircraft then entered a prolonged level cruise phase, lasting 40 minutes and covering 295 nautical miles, before beginning its descent into Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport. The descent phase was characterized by a series of level cruise segments, with the aircraft eventually descending from 34,994 feet to 8,071 feet in 14 minutes, covering 83 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 05 at CYYZ was executed from the southwest, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 135 knots and a distance of 1,433 feet. The touchdown rate was fair at -267 feet per minute, but the runway touchdown alignment was perfect. The total landing distance was 5,767 feet, accounting for 55% of the available runway. Following a smooth rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking 8 minutes to cover a distance of 2 nautical miles. The total flight distance was 545 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 1 hour and 45 minutes, and a fuel consumption of 6,499 pounds.
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