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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming through the flare so the sink does not return at 183 fpm.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink, but then the sink returned before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch the VSI in the flare and keep arrested sink from returning before touchdown at 128 fpm.
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 15 stages, 10 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 109 kt with 2.0° 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 719 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 182 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,070 fpm on average to 719 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 1,814 m runway.
Rolled from 90 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.2 m right. Airborne 61 % 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: no landing flap set and speed more than 28 kt above the approach speed of 92 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap all the way, gear up until 2.7 nm, banked until 2.7 nm, sinking too fast until 1.1 nm, left of the centreline until 0.5 nm, fast from 2.7 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 350 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Outside the 1° band 3 times; furthest 1,087 m left at 4.0 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 46 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 28 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.7 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +46 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 poor landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 1,814 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 62 ft, 12 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,057 m in, 752 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 1,814 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 61 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 120 fpm before coming down at 130 fpm to touch. The nose came up 5.8° 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 1,814 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.1 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.1 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.
Touched down 1,057 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This flight was conducted in a M500 aircraft, departing from runway 23 at EGPE Inverness Airport. The taxiing process from the parking area to the runway took less than a minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll began on runway 23, and the takeoff distance was 1,134 meters, which accounted for 63% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 110 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 16°C and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 270°. The crosswind and headwind components were both 1 knot. After departure, the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 23, covering a distance of 1 nautical mile in 108 seconds. The left-hand pattern crosswind leg was completed in less than 1 nautical mile in 15 seconds.
The aircraft then proceeded to the downwind turn, which covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The angle to the runway was 45 degrees, and the turn was executed at an angle of 4.6 degrees. The final approach to runway 05 was made from the southwest, with a heading of 44.0° at an altitude of 2 nautical miles and 1,167 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 05 was conducted with a runway length of 1,814 meters. However, the threshold height at 62 feet above ground level was above the target, and the threshold speed was too high at 113 knots. The touchdown point was very long, using more than 50% of the available runway. The touchdown speed was 89 knots, which was fast, but the touchdown rate was smooth at -107 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 7.1 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 15°C and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 269°. The crosswind and tailwind components were both 1 knot. The total landing distance was 1,811 meters, which was 100% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The total flight distance was 10 nautical miles, and the flight took 6 minutes to complete. The aircraft used 15 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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