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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 17°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 74 ft agl, above the 50 ft agl target. Crossing high like this usually reduces your margin before the touchdown zone ends.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against 50 ft at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 93 kt, on the 91 kt target, and lifted off at 101 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 161 kt target, at 166 kt on average.
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 518 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,593 m of runway left; gear up at 19 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 870 fpm on average to 518 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 2,130 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 3.4 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 12 % 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 0.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 300 ft over).
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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 246 m left of the centreline at 0.8 nm, then inside the band from 0.5 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 24 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 14 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +5 kt on the approach speed of 94 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
The flare tracked the target profile exactly. The flare was flown from 74 ft agl over the threshold, well above the target height, so the aircraft was above the profile for most of the landing. Touchdown was 496 m past the threshold. The flare cannot recover height that was never lost - fly the approach down to the aim point and the flare has somewhere to start from.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° 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.
From 96 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.23 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.
Crossed the threshold at 73 ft, 23 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 31 ft. Touched down 496 m in, 191 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 980 fpm at the flare to 70 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.6° 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 1,567 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.5 m right 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 496 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 21 at KFLG Flagstaff Pulliam International Airport, a movement that lasted 7 minutes and covered 4 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 21, the takeoff run measured 277 m, representing 13 % of the runway, and liftoff was achieved at 101 kt. Local conditions were a temperature of 16 °C, wind 2 kt from 270 °, with a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead KFLG, ascending from 7,397 ft asl to 8,120 ft asl, a gain of 723 ft in 2 minutes while covering 7 nm.
Descent began 2 miles south of Mountainaire, descending from 8,111 ft asl to 6,187 ft asl, a loss of 1,924 ft in 3 minutes over a distance of 12 nm.
The final approach to runway 21 at KSEZ Sedona Airport was established from the northeast on a heading of 143.0°, at 1 nm and 1,452 ft agl. The final segment saw a descent from 739 ft agl to 223 ft agl in 24 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 21, whose length is 1,568 m, occurred with a threshold height of 74 ft agl that was above target and a threshold speed of 97 kt that was slightly above target. Touchdown was recorded 471 m down the runway at a speed of 89 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 288 fpm and perfect runway alignment. Local weather at the time was a temperature of 15 °C, wind 2 kt from 269 °, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind component.
Total landing distance measured 1,052 m, representing 67 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 32 nm, required 14 minutes, and consumed 64 kg of fuel.
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