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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 5.7° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
You crossed the threshold slow. Without the speed there is little energy left to round out with, so the flare comes up short and the touchdown tends to be firm - and that feels exactly like flaring too late. Resist the fix that feels natural, flaring earlier: it bleeds off more speed and makes the next landing firmer still. Fly the approach speed all the way to the threshold, and the flare has something to work with.
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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 2.9° and 15.4°, and the speed between 101 kt and 132 kt.
Once clear of the runway the nose moved through a wide range, and the speed moved with it. Set the climb attitude, hold it and trim, and give the speed a few seconds to settle before correcting it with a degree or two of pitch. Chasing the airspeed with large pitch changes makes it wander more.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 4,656 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 4 ft off the centreline, in 10 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 54 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 104 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,193 ft of runway left; gear up at 79 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 120 fpm on average to 104 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
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 330 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, 1,000 ft 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 300 ft 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 +33 kt on the approach speed of 89 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
The flare wandered off the target profile
The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 15 times on the way down. Touchdown was 1,775 ft past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 36 ft, 147 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 9 ft from 6 ft. Touched down 1,775 ft in, 775 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 350 fpm before coming down at 220 fpm to touch. The nose came up 6.1° on the way down. Into the flare at 80 kt, 12 kt under the 92 kt approach speed, and 62 kt at touchdown.
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 5,000 ft of the 8,942 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 41 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 41 ft left at the widest. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° right of the track, 5.8° of bank.
Wind 100° at 14 kt · 13 kt head · 1 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 1,775 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 47 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 5 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxi from the parking area to the runway, lasting 3 minutes and covering less than 1 nm. The aircraft departed runway 31 at CZMT Masset Airport, using a take-off distance of 2,569 ft (55 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 90 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 46 °F, wind 21 kt from 111°, with a 12 kt crosswind and a 17 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 50 seconds, averaging 1,017 fpm and reaching 132 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 1,001 ft asl to 30,000 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 73 nm and beginning about 1 mile north-west of CZMT. Level cruise at 30,000 ft asl was held for 30 minutes, covering 167 nm, starting roughly 4 miles north-west of Metlakatla.
Descent from 29,994 ft asl to 2,023 ft asl took 20 minutes and covered 84 nm, beginning 14 miles north-west of 2Z1 Entrance Island Seaplane Base. A subsequent climb from 1,945 ft asl to 1,635 ft asl lasted 3 minutes over 6 nm, starting 6 miles north of PANR Funter Bay Seaplane Base.
The final approach to runway 08 at PAJN Juneau International Airport descended from 1,649 ft agl to 51 ft agl in 159 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Configuration was gear down at 4,662 ft agl with 154 kt, and final flap position 2 was set at 1,235 ft agl with 112 kt.
Landing on runway 08 (runway length 8,942 ft) had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly below target at 82 kt. The flare was described as fair, with the pitch being pumped up and down. Touchdown occurred 319 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 62 kt, with a fair rate of -217 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 41 ft from the centreline, and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 2,121 ft (24 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly off by 36 ft from the centreline.
Local weather at landing was temperature 44 °F, wind 14 kt from 100°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 13 kt headwind. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 337 nm in 79 minutes and used 556 lb of fuel.
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