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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
Arrival
In the last part of the flare, hold a little more back pressure to fully arrest the sink before the mains touch down.
What happened: Threshold speed and height were within limits, and the flare began on time and arrested the sink normally; even so, the touchdown rate was 141 fpm, a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smooth, gentle rate at touchdown
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 · 18 stages, 17 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 95 kt, on the 93 kt target, and lifted off at 99 kt 1.0 s later, the nose coming up at 3.1° a second. Climb 3 averaged 106 kt, 11 kt under its 117 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 992 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,869 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,340 fpm on average to 992 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 9,724 ft runway.
Rolled from 317 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 24 ft at the widest, and lifted off 24 ft left. Airborne 37 % 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 1,000 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.4 to 1.6 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 1.0 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.
Outside the glideslope band twice; furthest off 810 ft high at 3.5 nm.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 6× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.6 nm, then drifted 200 ft left between 1.6 and 1.3 nm, then back inside it from 1.3 to 1.0 nm, then 130 ft left of it from 1.0 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then fast to 0.2 nm (up to +20 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 300° at 4 kt · 4 kt head · 0 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 68 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 37 ft, 134 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,163 ft in, 163 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 700 fpm at the flare to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.6° 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 5,000 ft of the 7,580 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7 ft right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 13 ft right 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 1,163 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Vision Jet taxied from the parking area to runway 28L at KBOI Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field, a movement that required 12 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 28L, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 3,779 ft, representing 39 % of the runway, and lifted off at 99 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 85 °F, wind 9 kt from 149°, a 5 kt crosswind component and an 8 kt tailwind.
Climb commenced 1 mile west of KBOI, with the jet ascending from 3,847 ft asl to 11,488 ft asl, a gain of 7,641 ft achieved in 7 minutes while covering 20 nm.
A level cruise segment began 6 miles southeast of ID40 Sunrise Skypark Airport, Marsing, lasting 9 minutes and covering less than 1 nm.
The next climb started from the same Sunrise Skypark vicinity, raising the aircraft from 11,488 ft asl to 29,973 ft asl, an increase of 18,486 ft completed in 18 minutes over a distance of 59 nm.
A subsequent cruise phase originated 6 miles south of 0OR6 Rome Service Airport, Jordan Valley, persisting for 112 minutes and spanning 557 nm.
Descent began overhead Chino Hills, California, with the jet descending from 29,991 ft asl to 6,003 ft asl, a loss of 23,988 ft in 18 minutes while covering 88 nm.
A brief level cruise followed over Spring Valley, California, lasting 2 minutes and covering 6 nm.
The final descent segment started over Jamul, California, dropping from 5,716 ft asl to 1,991 ft asl, a decrease of 3,725 ft in 5 minutes across 13 nm.
The aircraft entered final approach to runway 27 at KSAN San Diego International Airport from the east, on a heading of 286.0° at 4 nm and 1,978 ft agl.
Landing on runway 27, which is 7,580 ft long, was executed with a threshold speed of 86 kt. Touchdown occurred at 1,162 ft down the runway, at 71 kt, with a smooth touchdown rate of -100 fpm. Local weather at the time was 72 °F, wind 4 kt from 300°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 4 kt headwind.
The total landing distance recorded was 2,655 ft, representing 35 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was noted as perfect.
After landing, the Vision Jet taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 753 nm, took 172 minutes, and consumed 1,143 lb of fuel.
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