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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Ease the nose up sooner to lift off at 110 kt instead of letting speed build on the ground.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 133 kt, 23 kt above the target liftoff speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 110 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
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 · 25 stages, 23 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 133 kt with 1.9° 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 962 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 497 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,410 fpm on average to 962 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 1,651 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 3.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.5 m right. Airborne 49 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 15 kt above the approach speed of 102 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 3.0 nm, then not again: fast from 2.4 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 320 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 2.6 nm, then drifted 91 m right between 2.6 and 1.6 nm, then inside the band from 1.6 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 26 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.4 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +23 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
Very good landing flare
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 103 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 219° at 13 kt · 12 kt head · 4 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 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 554 m in, 249 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 450 fpm at 42 ft to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.8° 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 first 1,524 m of the 2,794 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.4 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 554 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.12 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
This flight began with taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a 14-minute process that covered 2 nautical miles. After taking off from runway 36 at Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport, the aircraft, a Beechcraft King Air 350, lifted off at a speed of 133 knots and a takeoff distance of 866 meters, which was 52% of the runway length.
As the aircraft climbed to a cruising altitude of 28,464 feet, the enroute climb started overhead Aix-les-Bains Bourget Lake, with an increase in altitude of 26,679 feet in 23 minutes. The flight then entered a level cruise for 2 minutes, covering 7 nautical miles, before initiating another climb from 28,582 feet to 29,946 feet in 3 minutes. This was followed by an extended period of level cruise, lasting 75 minutes and covering 252 nautical miles, before the aircraft began its descent.
The first descent started 43 miles north west of Port de Soller in Spain, where the aircraft descended from 30,624 feet to 20,939 feet in 12 minutes. Another short level cruise ensued, lasting 3 minutes and covering less than 1 nautical mile. The second descent then began, bringing the aircraft down from 20,939 feet to 3,103 feet in 14 minutes. A further level cruise started 8 miles east of Sant Carles de Peralta, lasting 16 minutes and covering 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then initiated a final descent, descending from 3,157 feet to 2,275 feet in 2 minutes.
Throughout the flight, the pilot followed an eastward course until reaching LEIB Ibiza Airport in Spain, where a final approach was made from the north east on runway 24. The aircraft touched down 226 meters beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 102 knots, although the touchdown speed was considered a little fast. The touchdown rate was smooth, at -130 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
After landing, the Beechcraft King Air 350 taxied to the parking area, a 3-minute process covering less than 1 nautical mile. The flight distance was 462 nautical miles, completed in 127 minutes, with the aircraft consuming 640 kilograms of fuel. Overall, the flight appeared to be smooth and efficient, with good runway alignment throughout the landing process. The local weather conditions, with temperatures in the mid-20s and moderate wind speeds, posed no unusual challenges for the pilot.
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