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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 11°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
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 · 21 stages, 19 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 107 kt with 7.5° 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 841 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 133 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,390 fpm on average to 841 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 973 m runway.
Rolled from 87 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 5 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.2 m right, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 68 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, no landing flap until 3.6 nm and gear up until 3.0 nm.
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 150 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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 30 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 45 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 27 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +82 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
Very poor landing flare
11 kt across from the right, which takes about 8° of crab to hold the centreline at 80 kt. Touched down with 5° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 240° at 17 kt · 13 kt head · 11 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 71 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 601 m in, 296 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.
From 36 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 180 fpm before coming down at 430 fpm to touch. The nose went down 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 2,329 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.6 m right of the centreline and drifted to 7.4 m right on the rollout, back to 3.5 m right by the end.
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 601 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Beechcraft Duke, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Concord Municipal Airport, taking approximately 4 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 30, with the aircraft lifting off at a speed of 107 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 5°C, with a wind speed of 10 knots at 239°, resulting in a 7-knot headwind and a 7-knot crosswind.
As the aircraft climbed away from Concord, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead the city. The aircraft ascended from an altitude of 1,220 feet above sea level to 9,009 feet, an increase of 7,789 feet, in just 6 minutes, covering a distance of 15 nautical miles. Following this climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, which lasted for 3 minutes and covered 13 nautical miles, starting 1 mile east of Auburn, New Hampshire.
The enroute descent began 1 mile south of Atkinson, New Hampshire, where the aircraft descended from 8,999 feet to 4,013 feet, a decrease of 4,986 feet, in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 13 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise, which started overhead Topsfield, Massachusetts, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering 5 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its descent, it began its final approach to runway 22L at Logan International Airport, heading 200.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,403 feet above ground level. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 6°C, with a wind speed of 15 knots at 240°, resulting in a 9-knot crosswind and an 11-knot headwind.
The landing took place on runway 22L, which was 2,329 meters long. The aircraft touched down 164 meters beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 80 knots, with a touchdown rate of -165 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the threshold speed was good at 99 knots. The total landing distance was 1,076 meters, which was 46% of the runway length.
Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking approximately 2 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 61 nautical miles, taking 28 minutes, and the aircraft used 44 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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