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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Apply small rudder corrections to track the centreline against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted 16 m off the centreline, and a heading variation of -1.3° usually follows into the initial climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings-level runway heading held through the climb
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 69 kt with 7.4° 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 982 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,704 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,220 fpm on average to 982 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 2,403 m runway.
Rolled from 217 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 16 m at the widest, and lifted off 16 m left. Airborne 23 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.2 nm, about 440 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 90 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. 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 26× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 14 m 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.7 nm, then fast to 1.2 nm (up to +36 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
Great landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 300° at 17 kt · 17 kt head · 2 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 20 ft, 30 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 224 m in, 80 m short of 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 450 fpm at 19 ft to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.8° 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 2,376 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.5 m 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 224 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.25 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the departure roll on runway 12 at Forlì Airport (LIPK) in a Tecnam P2006T MKII aircraft. The takeoff distance was 360 meters, which was 15% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 69 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of Forlì Airport, it reached an altitude of 3,968 feet above sea level, increasing from 1,098 feet by 2,870 feet in just 3 minutes. The climb covered a distance of 6 nautical miles and ended at a location near the Campo di Volo Settecrociari Panighina airfield.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise, lasting for 31 minutes and covering 19 nautical miles. This was followed by a short descent from 3,952 feet to 3,455 feet in 2 minutes, as the aircraft headed towards Federico Fellini International Airport (LIPR) in Rimini.
After leveling off at an altitude of 3,455 feet near the Misano Adriatico location, the aircraft began another short descent to 1,381 feet in just 3 minutes, as it headed towards Gradara. This descent covered a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 31 at LIPR was made from the southeast, with the aircraft flying at a heading of 308 degrees at an altitude of 1,340 feet. The touchdown distance was good, and the aircraft landed safely on the runway.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius and a wind of 17 knots from a direction of 300 degrees. The crosswind was 2 knots, while the headwind was 17 knots. The threshold speed was slightly above the target at 76 knots.
The total landing distance was 345 meters, which was 15% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was perfect, indicating a smooth and controlled landing. The total flight distance was 42 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 51 minutes. The aircraft used 26 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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