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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Smooth the climb
Enroute Climb scored 94.88 % — bank angle up to 46.4 ° at 87 % was the weak point. Fixed, this flight scores 98.36 %.
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Start to finish · 19 stages, 17 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 68 kt with 8.7° 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 588 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,304 m of runway left; then climbing at 690 fpm on average to 588 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 2,191 m runway.
Rolled from 100 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 9.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 8.9 m right. Airborne 28 % 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° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 120 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.1 nm, then drifted 37 m left between 1.1 and 0.9 nm, then inside the band from 0.9 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
10 kt across from the left, which takes about 9° of crab to hold the centreline at 66 kt. Touched down with 6° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 150° at 10 kt · 5 kt head · 10 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 61 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 227 m in, 78 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 310 fpm at 14 ft to 70 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° 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 2,187 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4 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 227 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.09 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 started with a 7-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at LEAS Asturias Airport. The departure roll took place on runway 29, with a takeoff distance of 525 meters, covering 24% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 69 knots, with a local weather report showing a temperature of 16°C and a 5-knot wind coming from 230°, resulting in a 3-knot headwind and 5-knot crosswind.
The enroute climb commenced overhead San Juan de la Arena, climbing from 1,018 feet asl to 6,308 feet asl, covering a distance of 17 nautical miles in 9 minutes. The enroute level cruise started 5 miles east of Otur and lasted 23 minutes, covering 53 nautical miles. The descent began 2 miles northeast of Vilalba, descending from 7,107 feet asl to 2,447 feet asl, covering 26 nautical miles in 9 minutes. Another brief enroute level cruise started 2 miles north of Sada and lasted 3 minutes, covering 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 21 at LECO A Coruña Airport was from the northeast, at 4 nautical miles and 1,408 feet agl, heading at 210.0°. The landing took place on runway 21, with a length of 2,187 meters. The threshold speed was slightly below target at 70 knots, with a touchdown distance of 226 meters and a touchdown speed of 66 knots. The touchdown rate was excellent at -73 ft/m, with perfect alignment on the runway. The local weather at the time of landing was 18°C, with a 10-knot wind at 150°, resulting in a 5-knot headwind and 9-knot crosswind.
The total landing distance was 767 meters, covering 35% of the runway, with a very good runway rollout alignment. The taxi from the runway to the parking area took 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 107 nautical miles, with a duration of 53 minutes and fuel consumption of 219 kg.
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