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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Hold the nose until reaching 56 kt before rotating.
What happened: Rotation began at 45 kt, 11 kt before the 56 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator approaching 56 kt.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Pick a point at the far end of the runway and make small rudder corrections to track the centreline.
What happened: The aircraft drifted off the centreline on approach.
Watch for: Runway alignment against the centreline.
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 · 16 stages, 11 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 45 kt with 5.3° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 82 kt, 13 kt over its 69 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 883 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,587 m of runway left; then climbing at 630 fpm on average to 883 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,096 m runway.
Rolled from 90 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.8 m left. Airborne 8 % 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.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.1 to 0.2 nm, then not again: left of the centreline 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° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 2.2 nm, where the final began, to 1.6 nm (up to 910 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 750 m left of the centreline at 2.2 nm, then inside it from 1.3 to 0.2 nm, then 9 m left of it 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.2 nm, where the final began, to 1.9 nm (up to +24 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
From 47 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 20 ft, 30 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 19 ft. Touched down 455 m in, 150 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 240 fpm at the flare to 40 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.7° 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 3,096 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 5.8 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 455 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 09 at MDPC Punta Cana International Airport in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 09, the Cessna 152 accelerated for a takeoff distance of 289 m, representing 9 % of the runway length, and lifted off at 46 kt; ambient temperature was 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, no cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
The first en-route climb began 1 mile east of MDPC, where the aircraft rose from 942 ft asl to 1,171 ft asl, an increase of 229 ft achieved in 1 minute while covering 1 nm.
A level cruise segment followed 2 miles north-east of the airport, lasting 3 minutes and extending over 5 nm.
Descent commenced overhead Punta Cana, with the airplane descending from 1,710 ft asl to 47 ft asl, a loss of 1,663 ft in 3 minutes while traversing 4 nm.
Subsequent climb activity started overhead MDPC, where altitude increased from 46 ft asl to 2,014 ft asl, a gain of 1,968 ft accomplished in 3 minutes over a distance of 4 nm.
The final cruise phase began 1 mile north-east of Punta Cana, lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nm.
In total, the flight covered 19 nm, took 17 (unspecified units) and consumed 5 kg of fuel.
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