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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Track the centreline on final
See Arrival Final 1
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 10 stages, 8 in the score
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 69 kt with 7.1° 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 297 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,429 m of runway left; then climbing at 720 fpm on average to 297 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 2,489 m runway.
Rolled from 672 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.1 m left. Airborne 36 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
6 kt across from the right, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 66 kt. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 170° at 10 kt · 8 kt head · 6 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 59 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 488 m in, 183 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 250 fpm at 37 ft to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.1° 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 2,489 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.6 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 9.9 m left 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 488 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 13 at UGSB Batumi International Airport, where the DA-50 aircraft took off with a takeoff distance of 250 meters, which is 10% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 70 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time were characterized by a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 5 knots from a direction of 180 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 4 knots and a headwind of 3 knots.
After departing the airport, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. This phase of the flight took place overhead UGSB Batumi International Airport in Batumi, Georgia.
As the aircraft began its final approach to runway 13, it was heading in a direction of 106.0 degrees at an altitude of 162 feet above ground level and a distance of 1 nautical mile from the runway. The landing was executed on the runway, which has a length of 2,489 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was slightly below the target speed at 76 knots.
The touchdown point was located 46 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 66 knots, which was considered good. The touchdown rate was also excellent at -88 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 9.6 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.9 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 10 knots from a direction of 170 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 6 knots and a headwind of 8 knots. The total landing distance was 641 meters, which is 26% of the runway length. The total flight distance was 3 nautical miles, and the flight used 2 kilograms of fuel.
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