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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 29 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and wing drift like that usually keeps reappearing as bank in the climb, with 4.5° of bank in the first climb segment and 4.2° still showing in the second.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the runway centreline during the roll, then wings level 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 113 kt with 3.5° 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 1,028 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 543 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,300 fpm on average to 1,028 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 1,763 m runway.
Rolled from 342 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 28 m at the widest, and lifted off 28 m right, in 14 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 58 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.1 to 0.6 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 0.2 nm to the threshold.
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.
High from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to 2.1 nm (up to 1,350 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 534 m left of the centreline at 3.8 nm, then inside it from 2.6 to 0.2 nm, then 20 m right of it from 0.2 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 51 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 31 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.6 nm, then slow to 0.3 nm (up to −16 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
Very good landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 87 kt. Touched down with the nose 6° right of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 149° at 21 kt · 20 kt head · 3 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 81 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 s, an average deceleration of 0.24 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 19 ft, 31 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 432 m in, 127 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.
From 17 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 200 fpm before coming down at 220 fpm to touch. The nose went down 1.4° 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 2,135 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8.5 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.7 m left by the end of 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 432 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KBUR Hollywood Burbank Airport took 16 minutes and covered 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its departure roll on runway 26, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 113 knots. The takeoff distance of 1,042 meters represented 59% of the available runway length. Local weather conditions at the time of departure included a temperature of 16°C, with a wind of 23 knots at 317°, resulting in a crosswind of 17 knots and a headwind of 16 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to its enroute cruise altitude, it began its ascent from 1,830 feet above sea level, reaching 38,585 feet in 25 minutes and covering 119 nautical miles. The climb was characterized by a significant increase in altitude, with a total ascent of 36,755 feet. Following a 62-minute level cruise at 38,585 feet, the aircraft began its descent, reducing its altitude to 22,895 feet in 9 minutes and covering 61 nautical miles. This pattern of level cruise and descent was repeated several times, with the aircraft eventually beginning its final approach to runway 15 at KASE Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field).
The final approach was made from the north, with the aircraft heading 159.0° at 2 nautical miles and 1,257 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown distance of 431 meters and a touchdown speed of 87 knots. The touchdown rate was 15 feet per minute, indicating a smooth and controlled descent. The total landing distance was 723 meters, representing 34% of the available runway length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking less than 1 minute and covering less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 695 nautical miles, with a flight time of 2 hours and 9 minutes, and a fuel consumption of 615 kilograms.
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