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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Settle the descent rate
See Arrival Approach
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, 24 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 79 kt with 6.2° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 97 kt, 7 kt under its 104 kt target.
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 570 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,319 ft of runway left; gear up at 98 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 750 fpm on average to 570 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 4,978 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 7 ft at the widest, and lifted off 7 ft left, in 34 kn of crosswind from the left. 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: sinking too fast until 2.3 nm, left of the centreline from 0.9 nm, slow from 0.2 nm and low from 0.2 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 3.2° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 3.4 nm, then high to 1.0 nm (up to 990 ft over), then back on it to 0.2 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 90 ft under).
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: 3.2° here, which is about 340 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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.
Joined 5,430 ft left of the centreline, then inside it from 1.1 to 0.9 nm, then 230 ft left of it from 0.9 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 39 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to 2.9 nm (up to −14 kt), then inside the band to 0.2 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −14 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
The flare wandered off the target profile. The flare took all the sink out 16 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 276 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 238 ft past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
7 kt across from the right, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 65 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 200° at 18 kt · 17 kt head · 7 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 50 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 5 s, an average deceleration of 0.26 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 22 ft, 1,180 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 3 ft, 47 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 4 ft from 12 ft. Touched down 238 ft in, 762 ft short of 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.
The sink went from 490 fpm at the flare to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.8° 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 5,000 ft of the 7,650 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 56 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 57 ft left at the widest.
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 238 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Calgary / Springbank Airport (CYBW), the Mooney Ovation M20R began its journey with a taxiing period of 10 minutes, covering 2 nautical miles to reach the runway. Runway 35 was selected for departure, and the aircraft lifted off after a takeoff distance of 2,758 feet, which accounted for 55% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 79 knots, achieved in a headwind of 6 knots and a crosswind of 35 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to 11,750 feet above sea level, it covered a distance of 17 nautical miles in 10 minutes, demonstrating a steady ascent. The enroute climb phase was followed by several level cruise segments, with the longest lasting 164 minutes and covering 139 nautical miles. The aircraft also underwent multiple descent phases, with the steepest descent from 12,503 feet to 10,307 feet in 3 minutes, covering 7 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 16 at Kelowna International Airport (CYLW) was initiated from the north, with a heading of 192.0° at 4 nautical miles and 2,046 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 16 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 223 feet and a touchdown speed of 64 knots. The touchdown rate was also within acceptable limits at -160 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 57 feet from the centreline. The total landing distance was 473 feet, accounting for 6% of the runway length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 234 nautical miles, with a flight time of 120 minutes and a fuel consumption of 4 pounds.
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