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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to accelerate back to climb speed.
What happened: Climb speed was slower than the target during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against climb speed target.
Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 122 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 122 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, well above the normal profile. The touchdown point was also long at 942 m against a 457 m target, a pattern often seen after high threshold crossings.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
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.
Lifted off at 119 kt with 4.5° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 119 kt, 24 kt under its 143 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 831 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,248 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,010 fpm on average to 831 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 2,132 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 7 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.4 m left. Airborne 33 % 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 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 15 kt above the approach speed of 98 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 1.9 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 1.9 nm and fast from 0.3 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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 170 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.9 nm, then 88 m right of it from 1.9 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 25 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.6 nm, then fast to 1.2 nm (up to +19 kt), then inside the band to 0.3 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +12 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 mostly held the target profile. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 8 times on the way down. Touchdown was 942 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 89 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.39 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 122 ft, 72 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 45 ft. Touched down 942 m in, 637 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 650 fpm at the flare to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.6° 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 2,263 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 16 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 18 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.
Touched down 942 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 375 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The ATR-42 taxied from the parking area to runway 26L at KSUS Spirit of St Louis Airport in a period of 60 minutes, covering a ground distance of 8 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 26L the aircraft used 690 m of runway, representing 32 % of the available length, and lifted off at 119 kt; ambient temperature was 31 °C with a wind of 9 kt from 230°, giving a 4 kt cross-wind component and an 8 kt head-wind component.
The initial climb began overhead KSUS, climbing from 1,443 ft asl to 10,873 ft asl, an altitude gain of 9,430 ft achieved in 4 minutes while traversing 10 nm.
A level cruise segment commenced 2 nm east of Weldon Spring and lasted 3 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 9 nm.
A subsequent climb started 1 nm south of Chesterfield, raising the aircraft from 9,899 ft asl to 11,069 ft asl, a gain of 1,170 ft in 2 minutes over 5 nm.
The first descent of the flight began 2 nm west of Westwood, descending from 11,101 ft asl to 10,434 ft asl, a loss of 666 ft in 2 minutes while covering 5 nm.
A second climb was initiated 1 nm east of Chesterfield, increasing altitude from 10,472 ft asl to 11,768 ft asl, an ascent of 1,296 ft in 2 minutes across 2 nm.
The next descent started 1 nm east of Clarkson Valley, dropping from 11,768 ft asl to 5,122 ft asl, a decrease of 6,646 ft in 2 minutes and covering 4 nm.
A further climb began 1 nm south-east of Ellisville, climbing from 5,194 ft asl to 6,238 ft asl, a gain of 1,044 ft in 2 minutes over 3 nm.
A prolonged cruise segment started 1 nm west of Ellisville, lasting 21 minutes and extending 67 nm.
Descent number four originated 7 nm east of Holts Summit, descending from 6,409 ft asl to 5,800 ft asl, a loss of 610 ft in 2 minutes while covering 4 nm.
Climb number five commenced 2 nm east of Holts Summit, raising the aircraft from 5,703 ft asl to 6,741 ft asl, an increase of 1,038 ft in 2 minutes across 5 nm.
The final descent of the flight began 2 nm west of Holts Summit, dropping from 6,577 ft asl to 2,001 ft asl, a loss of 4,576 ft in 6 minutes and covering 12 nm.
The aircraft entered the final approach to runway 02 at KCOU Columbia Regional Airport from the south, on a heading of 21.0° at 4 nm and 1,113 ft agl.
Landing on runway 02 was performed with a runway length of 1,985 m; the threshold height at 122 ft agl was noted as excessively over target and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 106 kt. Touchdown occurred 516 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 86 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 296 fpm and a runway touchdown position offset 17.7 m from the centreline. Local conditions were 29 °C, wind 6 kt from 50°, providing a 3 kt cross-wind and a 5 kt head-wind component.
The total landing roll measured 1,206 m, representing 61 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was misaligned by 16.2 m from the centreline.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In summary, the flight covered a total of 139 nm, required 63 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 672 kg of fuel.
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