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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 5.2° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 28° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 61 ft agl, above the 50 ft agl target. Crossing high like this usually reduces your margin before the touchdown zone ends.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against 50 ft at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 112 kt, on the 112 kt target, and lifted off at 117 kt 1.2 s later, the nose coming up at 5.1° a second. Climb 3 averaged 133 kt, 6 kt under its 139 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 476 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,737 m of runway left; gear up at 62 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,710 fpm on average to 476 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 3,671 m runway.
Rolled from 59 m in, drifted 6.9 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 15 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 19 % 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 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.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: left of the centreline all the way, banked until 3.0 nm, fast from 1.2 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° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 3.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 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° 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.
Joined 884 m left of the centreline at 3.4 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 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 3.4 nm, where the final began, to 1.2 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +21 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 2.7 points, for the nose going up and down 3 times.
15 kt across from the right, which takes about 8° of crab to hold the centreline at 102 kt. Touched down with the nose 6° left of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 300° at 21 kt · 14 kt head · 15 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 92 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.38 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.
Crossed the threshold at 60 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 19 ft. Touched down 501 m in, 196 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 440 fpm at the flare to 120 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 3,671 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 7.7 m left 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 501 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The ATR-72 taxied to runway 23L at NZAA Auckland International Airport and commenced the take-off roll. The take-off distance was 704 m, which is 19 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 112 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 21 °C, wind 21 kt from 300°, giving a cross-wind component of 16 kt and a head-wind component of 14 kt.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 14 seconds, averaging 1 469 fpm and reaching 132 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 467 ft asl to 989 ft asl in 1 minute while covering 3 nm, starting overhead NZAA. Level flight was maintained at 1 000 ft asl for 3 minutes, covering 6 nm, beginning 2 miles south-west of Wiri.
During final approach to runway 23L, the descent was from 974 ft agl to 7 ft agl in 104 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope and speed; they were not met for centreline and wings level (at one gate). The aircraft crossed the threshold at a height of 61 ft agl, which was above target, and at a speed of 117 kt, also above target.
The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 83 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 102 kt, judged good, and a smooth descent rate of minus 125 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly off centreline by 3.7 m. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 738 m, representing 20 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was temperature 19 °C, wind 17 kt from 300°, giving a cross-wind component of 13 kt and a head-wind component of 11 kt. The flight covered a total of 25 nm, lasted 22 minutes and consumed 338 kg of fuel.
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