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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 144 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 125 kt, 19 kt before the 144 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 144 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections to track a point at the far end of the runway and close the offset before touchdown.
What happened: You touched down with the centreline offset by 8.7 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline alignment, keeping offset inside the limit.
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 125 kt, 19 kt below the 144 kt target, and lifted off at 136 kt 3.9 s later, the nose coming up at 3.0° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 164 kt target, at 164 kt on average.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 1,005 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,244 m of runway left; gear up at 43 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,240 fpm on average to 1,005 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,694 m runway.
Rolled from 76 m in, drifted 8.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. 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. 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 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 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 100 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 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 13 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +3 kt on the approach speed of 132 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 2.4 points, for touching down 8.2° above the aircraft's ground attitude.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 070° at 6 kt · 6 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 31 ft, 19 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 16 ft. Touched down 290 m in, close to 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 480 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.9° 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 2,943 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8.7 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.9 m right 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 290 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320-ceo taxied from the parking area to runway 10 at EDDN Nuremberg Airport, a movement that lasted 7 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 10 with a take-off roll of 1,140 m (42 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 125 kt. Local weather at departure was 5 °C, wind 5 kt from 050° (crosswind 4 kt, headwind 4 kt).
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 25 seconds, averaging 1,825 fpm and reaching 170 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 2,098 ft asl to 34,009 ft asl in 14 minutes, covering 82 nm, beginning the climb about 1 mile east of EDDN. Cruise level was maintained at 34,000 ft asl for 12 minutes, covering 85 nm, with the aircraft positioned about 2 miles south-east of Witzleben.
Descent began from 34,001 ft asl to 1,421 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 102 nm, starting overhead Frellstedt. The final approach to runway 05 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport descended from 1,428 ft agl to 47 ft agl in 116 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. The landing gear was lowered at 4,333 ft agl with a speed of 209 kt; the final flap position 5 was selected at 1,421 ft agl with a speed of 145 kt.
Landing was made on runway 05, whose length is 2,943 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 132 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 290 m down the runway at a speed of 124 kt, a little fast, with a vertical rate of minus 55 fpm, which was excellent. The touchdown point was misaligned by 8.7 m from the centreline, but there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,216 m (41 % of the runway) and the rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 277 nm, lasted 53 minutes, and used 1,962 kg of fuel. Local weather at Hamburg was 4 °C, wind 7 kt from 070° (crosswind 2 kt, headwind 7 kt).
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