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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Use coordinated aileron input to level the wings and hold bank angle close to wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the initial climb, your average bank angle drifted to 4.3°.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, bank angle near wings-level
Arrival
Reduce power sooner on final so you cross the threshold at 112 kt, carrying that speed into the flare.
What happened: Crossing the threshold at 126 kt, 14 kt above 112 kt, usually leaves extra energy that lets the sink come back after the flare has arrested it, and that returning sink usually carries through to a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 112 kt at the threshold.
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 · 18 stages, 16 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 114 kt, 11 kt below the 125 kt target, and lifted off at 118 kt 2.7 s later, the nose coming up at 3.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 147 kt, 8 kt over 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 514 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,146 m of runway left; gear up at 28 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,030 fpm on average to 514 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 2,546 m runway.
Rolled from 68 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 6.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.4 m right, in 12 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 39 % 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: five 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.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.6 to 0.5 nm, then not again: fast from 0.5 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 2.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 320 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 789 m right of the centreline at 2.6 nm, then inside the band from 2.0 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 28 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 2.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +17 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
Great landing flare. It lost 4.3 points, for 486 fpm of sink coming back after the flare.
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 113 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 105° at 11 kt · 10 kt tail · 4 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 124 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.30 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 1,408 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 48 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 41 ft. Touched down 544 m in, 239 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 1,408 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 1,000 fpm at the flare to 440 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° 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 full 1,408 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.8 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 544 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 437 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The ATR-72 taxied from the parking area to runway 05 at LDSP Split Airport in about 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 05 with a distance of 1,006 m, which is 40 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 114 kt. Local weather at departure was 20 °C, wind 17 kt from 110°, giving a 15 kt crosswind component and a 9 kt headwind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 27 seconds, averaging 1,004 fpm and reaching 149 kt at the top of the climb.
The climb continued from 613 ft asl to 16,986 ft asl in 17 minutes, covering 57 nm and passing overhead Kastel Stafilic.
Cruise was level at 17,000 ft asl for 45 minutes, covering 202 nm, beginning 2 mi west of Bosansko Grahovo.
Descent began from 16,536 ft asl to 1,272 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 96 nm, starting 3 mi south of Tet, with a brief level-off at 2,600 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 26 at LOXT Brumowski Air Base descended from 915 ft agl to 82 ft agl in 63 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration on final was flap position 1 at 1,436 ft agl, speed 155 kt.
Landing on runway 26 was on a good threshold with a length of 1,408 m. Threshold speed was slightly above target at 126 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 119 m beyond the touchdown zone at 113 kt, a little fast, with a hard rate of -438 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was perfect, and there was no bounce.
Total landing distance was 829 m, 59 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was 12 °C, wind 9 kt from 105°, giving a 3 kt crosswind component and a 9 kt tailwind component.
After landing the aircraft taxied to the parking area in about 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 361 nm in 94 minutes and used 938 kg of fuel.
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