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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 3.2°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 71 kt with 6.7° 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 858 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 149 m of runway left; then climbing at 980 fpm on average to 858 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 678 m runway.
Rolled from 159 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 6.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.4 m right. Airborne 62 % 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 1.3 nm, about 480 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 50 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 7× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 58 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.6 nm, then fast to 1.3 nm (up to +27 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 112° at 5 kt · 5 kt tail · 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 474 m in, 170 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 620 fpm at 37 ft to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 7.4° 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 2,403 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.9 m left of the centreline.
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 474 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Tecnam P2006T MKII aircraft departed from runway 21 at LIKO Guglielmo Zamboni airport. After a short distance of 266 meters, covering 39% of the runway, the plane lifted off the ground at a liftoff speed of 71 knots. Local weather conditions were quite favorable, with a temperature of 21°C, a wind speed of 3 knots at 261 degrees, and a crosswind component of 2 knots. A headwind, also of 2 knots, was present.
The enroute climb started approximately one mile southwest of LIKO Guglielmo Zamboni airport, with the aircraft climbing from an altitude of 1,003 feet above sea level to 1,048 feet. This increase in altitude was achieved in less than one minute, and the plane covered almost no distance during this phase.
The aircraft then began a level cruise, commencing one mile south of the airport. This cruise phase lasted for three minutes and saw the plane cover a distance of six nautical miles.
As the plane continued its journey, another climb phase was initiated approximately one mile northeast of Medicina-Buda airport. During this climb, the aircraft rose from an altitude of 1,038 feet above sea level to 3,850 feet, with an increase of 2,812 feet in just three minutes, and the plane covered a distance of six nautical miles.
After another level cruise phase, where the plane flew for 16 minutes over the airport of LIHC Campo di Volo Delta club Conselice, and covered 26 nautical miles, the enroute descent phase began at Forlimpopoli airport. The descent from 3,721 feet to 3,244 feet, with a decrease of 478 feet in just two minutes, and covering four nautical miles, was a smooth transition.
The next level cruise phase, where the plane flew for five minutes over the area one mile north of Cesena airport, and covered one nautical mile, was immediately followed by another descent phase, which took place at Cesena airport. The descent from 2,458 feet to 1,379 feet, with a decrease of 1,078 feet in two minutes, and covering three nautical miles, was another controlled phase of the flight.
Upon reaching Cesena airport, the final approach was initiated, with the aircraft heading towards runway 30 at LIPK Forlì Airport from a southeasterly direction. The landing on this runway, with a length of 2,403 meters, was successful. The touchdown distance of 472 meters was well within the acceptable range, with the touchdown speed being 60 knots. The touchdown rate of -62 feet per minute was also an impressive achievement. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly off centerline, by 3.2 meters.
By the end of the flight, the aircraft had traveled a total distance of 51 nautical miles, completing the journey in 36 minutes. The fuel consumption for this trip was 18 kilograms.
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