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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 1.6°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Add power at the gate to bring the speed up to 86 kt and hold it through the approach.
What happened: This flight was slow at the stabilisation gate, 70 kt against 86 kt, and still slow crossing the threshold at 71 kt against 86 kt. Carrying low speed into the flare like this usually leaves little energy to cushion the touchdown, and this one arrived firm at 147 fpm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 86 kt at the gate
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 78 kt, 4 kt below the 82 kt target, and lifted off at 85 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 2.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 108 kt, 19 kt under its 127 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 813 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,656 m of runway left; gear up at 43 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 930 fpm on average to 813 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 3,290 m runway.
Rolled from 879 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.1 m left, in 9 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 42 % 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.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 86 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 86 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way and right of the centreline until 0.2 nm.
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 90 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 6× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.6 nm, then drifted 20 m right between 0.6 and 0.2 nm, then inside the band from 0.2 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −18 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 280° at 5 kt · 5 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 61 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 34 ft, 78 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 167 m in, 138 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 650 fpm at the flare to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.3° 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 2,994 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.3 m 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 167 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Pilatus PC-12 taxied from the parking area to runway 29 at LDDU Dubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport, a taxi of 16 minutes covering 2 nm.
Take-off was on runway 29. The aircraft used 1,407 m of runway, 43 % of the available length, and rotated at 78 kt. Local weather was 13 °C with wind 10 kt from 019°, giving a 1 kt headwind and a 10 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 50 seconds, averaging 843 fpm and reaching 114 kt at the top of the climb.
The climb continued from 1,349 ft asl to 26,295 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 43 nm and beginning overhead Zvekovica.
Level cruise was at 27,000 ft asl for 26 minutes, covering 120 nm, starting 4 miles north of Herceg Novi.
Descent began at 26,993 ft asl and proceeded to 1,629 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 66 nm, starting 5 miles south of Ljig, with a brief level-off at 3,600 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 30 at LYBE Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport descended from 1,353 ft agl to 28 ft agl in 216 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met.
Landing was on runway 30, whose length is 2,994 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was a little below target at 71 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 166 m down the runway at 67 kt with a smooth rate of -148 fpm; alignment was perfect and there was no bounce.
The total landing roll was 746 m, 25 % of the runway, with very good rollout alignment. Local weather at landing was 7 °C with wind 5 kt from 280°, giving a 5 kt headwind and a 2 kt crosswind.
The flight covered 237 nm in 67 minutes and used 239 kg of fuel.
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