Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 8.5 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 19 stages, 17 in the score
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 90 kt, 16 kt below the 106 kt target, and lifted off at 124 kt 5.1 s later, the nose coming up at 1.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 152 kt, 6 kt under its 158 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 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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 921 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 353 m of runway left; gear up at 96 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,720 fpm on average to 921 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 1,194 m runway.
Rolled from 108 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 8.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 7 m left. Airborne 58 % 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. These checks are the approach's score.
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 3.5° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 60 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 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 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 13 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 25 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +4 kt and +17 kt on the approach speed of 99 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 strayed well off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.7° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 66 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 2° of bank.
Wind 130° at 5 kt · 4 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 115 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 39 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 14 ft, 194 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 12 ft, 38 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 66 m in, 239 m short of 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 1,220 fpm at the flare to 520 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 2,102 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.6 m right of the centreline and drifted to 6.8 m right on 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 66 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 523 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Phenom 300E taxied from the parking area to runway 26L at KLGB Long Beach Airport (Daugherty Field) in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 26L, the aircraft used 686 m of runway, representing 57 % of the available length, and lifted off at 124 kt; ambient temperature was 21 °C.
Climb commenced overhead Signal Hill, with the aircraft ascending from 1,042 ft asl to 42,077 ft asl, a gain of 41,035 ft achieved in 14 minutes while covering 86 nm.
Cruise was conducted in three segments: the first level segment began over 27CA Holiday Ranch Airport, Apple Valley, and lasted 45 minutes for 387 nm; the second segment started 12 mi north of Dolores, Colorado, and lasted 2 minutes for 9 nm; the third segment began 5 mi south of Norwood, Colorado, and lasted 3 minutes for 10 nm.
Descent was performed in three stages: the initial descent began 7 mi south of UT74 Fry Canyon Field, Hite, Utah, dropping from 42,312 ft asl to 15,022 ft asl-a loss of 27,290 ft in 12 minutes over 91 nm; the second descent started 19 mi south of Norwood, Colorado, descending from 15,016 ft asl to 12,851 ft asl, a decrease of 2,165 ft in 3 minutes covering 14 nm; the final descent commenced 6 mi southwest of CO68 Frederick-Firestone F.S. #2 Heliport, Frederick, Colorado, falling from 12,297 ft asl to 10,528 ft asl, a loss of 1,769 ft in 2 minutes for 5 nm.
The final approach to runway 09 at KTEX Telluride Regional Airport was executed from the west on a heading of 105.0° at 4 nm and 1,478 ft agl.
Landing on runway 09, which is 2,102 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 103 kt, touchdown distance of 67 m, touchdown speed of 101 kt, and a heavy touchdown rate of minus 648 fpm; total landing distance was 837 m, representing 40 % of the runway. Local weather reported a temperature of 11 °C, wind 7 kt from 130°, with a 3 kt crosswind and a 6 kt headwind.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
Taxi-in from the runway to the parking area took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 608 nm, took 90 minutes, and consumed 737 kg of fuel.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values