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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 2.6° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 16° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Below a thousand feet the aeroplane is slow, heavy and close to the ground. A steep turn loses lift, raises the stall speed and flattens the climb just when the gradient matters most. A normal turn on course is a rate one — fifteen degrees or so, twenty-five at the outside, this penalty is to acknowledge when a turn has stopped being a turn and become a manoeuvre.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 114 kt with 1.5° 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 575 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,119 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,160 fpm on average to 575 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 2,737 m runway.
Rolled from 124 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.6 m left. Airborne 42 % 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.
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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.8 nm, about 300 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 2.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 110 ft below 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 616 m left of the centreline at 2.2 nm, then inside the band from 0.8 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 49 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 29 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +26 kt on the approach speed of 97 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
Good landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 30 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 18 ft, 32 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 660 m in, 356 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 330 fpm at 19 ft to 30 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 2,737 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.6 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.
Touched down 660 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This flight was conducted in a M500 aircraft, departing from Glasgow Prestwick Airport (EGPK) on runway 30. The taxiing process from the parking area to the runway took less than a minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its departure roll, taking off with a takeoff distance of 1,188 meters, which accounted for 43% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 114 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270 degrees. The crosswind and headwind were both 1 knot, resulting in a negligible impact on the flight. The enroute climb started overhead Monkton, a location in South Ayrshire, Scotland, where the aircraft climbed from an altitude of 636 feet above sea level to 593 feet above sea level, an increase of 43 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 12 at EGPK Glasgow Prestwick Airport was conducted from the north-west, with the aircraft heading at 138.0 degrees at an altitude of 528 feet above ground level and a distance of 2 nautical miles from the runway. The landing was executed with a threshold speed that was slightly above the target at 96 knots. The touchdown point was 228 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 78 knots and a perfect touchdown rate of -32 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was also perfect.
The total landing distance was 1,388 meters, accounting for 51% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect, indicating a smooth and controlled landing. The local weather conditions remained the same, with a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270 degrees. The crosswind and tailwind were both 1 knot, resulting in a negligible impact on the flight.
The total flight distance was 7 nautical miles, taking approximately 5 minutes to complete. The aircraft used 12 kilograms of fuel during the flight, indicating an efficient use of resources. Overall, the flight was executed smoothly and safely, with a perfect touchdown rate and alignment.
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