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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 13°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 4.5° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 112 kt with 3.5° of pitch.
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 956 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 952 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,060 fpm on average to 956 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 1,906 m runway.
Rolled from 51 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.9 m left. Airborne 36 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 340 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.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 174 m off the centreline.
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 49 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 29 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −8 kt and +6 kt on the approach speed of 98 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
Good landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 10° right of the track, 13° of bank.
Wind 224° at 3 kt · 1 kt head · 2 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 79 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 2 s, an average deceleration of 1.22 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 18 ft, 32 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 157 m in, 148 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 300 fpm at 18 ft to 150 fpm at 11 ft, then back up to 760 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 6.2° 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 first 1,524 m of the 2,312 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 19 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 19 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 157 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.86 G arrival bounced 8 times.
The rest of the report
The flight in question was operated by the Cockspur PH100 aircraft. The pre-flight taxiing process took 9 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles (nm) as the aircraft made its way from the parking area to the runway. The departure roll took place on runway 34 at the Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport in Corfu, Greece.
As the aircraft lifted off, it reached a liftoff speed of 112 knots (kt) and covered a takeoff distance of 722 meters, which accounted for 38% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 22 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 3 knots at 225 degrees. The crosswind and tailwind components were both 2 knots.
The enroute climb began overhead Corfu, where the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 1,020 feet above sea level (asl) to 7,010 ft asl, an increase of 5,991 feet in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nm. This was followed by a level cruise that lasted 5 minutes and covered 20 nm, starting 4 miles north of Kouspades in the Ionian Islands, Greece.
The aircraft then began another climb, this time from 7,001 ft asl to 39,997 ft asl, an increase of 32,997 feet in 23 minutes, covering a distance of 115 nm. This climb took place 3 miles north of Kouspades. The enroute level cruise that followed lasted 31 minutes and covered 349 nm, starting 34 miles northeast of Materdomini in Puglia, Italy.
As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its descent from 40,013 ft asl to 3,993 ft asl, a decrease of 36,020 feet in 23 minutes, covering a distance of 132 nm. This descent started 1 mile southeast of Spodnje Gameljne in Mestna Obcina Ljubljana, Slovenia. The aircraft then entered another level cruise, lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nm, starting 1 mile southwest of Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria.
The final descent took place overhead Laufen in Bavaria, Germany, where the aircraft descended from 3,996 ft asl to 2,452 ft asl, a decrease of 1,544 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nm. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 15 at Salzburg Airport, heading 159.0 degrees at 4 nm and 1,039 feet above ground level (agl).
The landing took place on runway 15, which had a length of 2,312 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 90 kt. The touchdown distance was good at 156 meters, and the touchdown speed was also good at 77 kt. However, the touchdown rate was hard at -429 feet per minute (fpm). The runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 19.0 meters from the centreline.
The total landing distance was 240 meters, which accounted for 10% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 23.5 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 17 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 3 knots at 224 degrees. The crosswind component was 3 knots, while the headwind component was 1 knot.
The total flight distance was 640 nm, and the flight duration was 98 minutes. The aircraft used 627 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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