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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 2.3°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
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 · 21 stages, 19 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 77 kt with 4.7° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 215 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 601 m of runway left; then climbing at 740 fpm on average to 215 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 1,528 m runway.
Rolled from 313 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.8 m left. Airborne 45 % 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: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high all the way, no landing flap until 3.5 nm, banked until 2.3 nm, sinking too fast until 1.8 nm and left of the centreline until 1.2 nm.
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 the threshold (up to 1,850 ft over).
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.
Outside the 1° band twice; furthest 267 m left at 2.6 nm.
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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −4 kt and +34 kt on the approach speed of 72 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
Great landing flare
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 51 kt. Touched down with the nose 5° into wind, wings level.
Wind 229° at 5 kt · 3 kt tail · 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 62 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 27 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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 1,322 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 50 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 395 m in, 90 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 1,322 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 51 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 100 fpm before coming down at 150 fpm to touch. The nose came up 8.4° 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 full 1,322 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 5 m right on the rollout, back to 0.6 m right by the end.
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 395 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Piper PA-24-250 Comanche, then departed from runway 32 at LSZB Bern Airport. The takeoff distance was 691 meters, which accounted for 45% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 77 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 5°C, with a wind speed of 4 knots at 336°. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 4 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead Muri in the Canton de Berne, Switzerland. The climb took 12 minutes and covered 20 nautical miles, with the aircraft ascending from 2,228 feet above sea level to 10,739 feet above sea level, an increase of 8,511 feet.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, starting 2 miles south-east of Luthern in the Kanton Luzern, Switzerland. This cruise lasted for 7 minutes and covered 9 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, starting 1 mile south of Neuenkirch in the Kanton Luzern, Switzerland. This climb took 9 minutes and covered 12 nautical miles, with the aircraft ascending from 12,242 feet above sea level to 15,451 feet above sea level, an increase of 3,209 feet.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting 1 mile south-west of Arth in the Kanton Schwyz, Switzerland. This cruise lasted for 7 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its descent, starting 1 mile south-west of Arth in the Kanton Schwyz, Switzerland. The descent took 7 minutes and covered 33 nautical miles, with the aircraft descending from 15,607 feet above sea level to 7,127 feet above sea level, a decrease of 8,480 feet.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting overhead Oberuzwil in the Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland. This cruise lasted for 5 minutes and covered 11 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, starting overhead Haggenschwil in the Kanton St. Gallen, Switzerland. The descent took 3 minutes and covered 6 nautical miles, with the aircraft descending from 6,624 feet above sea level to 3,488 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,136 feet.
The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 10 at LSZR Sankt Gallen Altenrhein Airport, approaching from the west at a heading of 112.0°. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 4°C, with a wind speed of 5 knots at 231°. This resulted in a crosswind of 4 knots and a tailwind of 3 knots.
The landing was successful, with a touchdown speed of 50 knots and a touchdown rate of -82 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the runway rollout alignment was very good. The total landing distance was 974 meters, which accounted for 74% of the runway. The aircraft then taxied to the parking, which took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 96 nautical miles, and the flight took 50 minutes. The aircraft used 33 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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