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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 1.8°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Add power on short final to recover 90 kt by the threshold, then hold that speed through the flare.
What happened: Crossing the threshold at 81 kt against the 90 kt target usually leaves too little energy for the flare, and the sink that then returns usually carries through to a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 90 kt at the threshold.
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 79 kt with 11.1° 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 421 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft 154 m past the runway end; then climbing at 660 fpm on average to 421 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 601 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 5 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.9 m right, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 94 % of the way down the runway, past 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 210 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 6× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 66 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 45 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 27 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −10 kt and +22 kt on the approach speed of 90 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 2.9 points, mostly for rising 3 ft agl in the flare.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 262° at 5 kt · 5 kt head · 1 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 69 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 1,202 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 38 ft, 215 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 7 ft, 43 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 3 ft from 1 ft. Touched down 330 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 1,202 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 the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 140 fpm before coming down at 180 fpm to touch. The nose came up 1.8° 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 1,202 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.5 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.1 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 330 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft Duke taxied from the parking area to the runway at LOIH Hohenems-Dornbirn Airfield in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 05, using 564 m of runway (94 % of the available length) and lifted off at 80 kt; local conditions were 17 °C with a wind of 11 kt from 274°, a crosswind component of 8 kt and a tailwind component of 7 kt.
Climb began 1 mile southwest of Dornbirn, with the aircraft ascending from 1,637 ft asl to 12,010 ft asl-a gain of 10,372 ft-over 10 minutes while covering 24 nm.
The first cruise segment started overhead Oberteuringen, lasting 55 minutes and encompassing 206 nm of level flight.
Descent was initiated 1 mile west of Morsbach, with the aircraft descending from 11,349 ft asl to 2,394 ft asl-a loss of 8,955 ft-in 10 minutes and traversing 29 nm.
A second cruise phase began 1 mile southwest of Schwelm, lasting 6 minutes and covering 13 nm.
The final approach to runway 24 at EDLE Essen Mülheim Airport was flown from the north-east on a heading of 248.0°, intercepting the approach at 4 nm and 1,090 ft agl, then descending from 1,164 ft agl to 24 ft agl in 148 seconds and meeting the stabilisation gates.
Landing was executed on runway 24 (length 1,202 m) with a threshold speed of 81 kt, a touchdown distance of 329 m, a touchdown speed of 69 kt, a touchdown rate of minus 120 fpm, and a touchdown point 4.5 m off the centreline; local weather was 14 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 257°, a crosswind of 1 kt and a headwind component of 7 kt. The total landing distance recorded was 557 m (46 % of runway).
Runway rollout alignment was very good, and the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 281 nm, required 89 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 198 kg of fuel.
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