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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Smooth the climb
Pull to 15 degrees at one rate and you get a clean liftoff, pull to the same 15 degrees at twice the rate and you get an overshoot, a push, and an oscillation through the first few hundred feet. The type-general rule of thumb is a rotation rate of about 2 to 3 degrees per second, which means roughly five to seven seconds from starting the pull to reaching the initial climb attitude of around 15 degrees nose-up. Count it out loud during your next takeoff and you will almost certainly discover you have been rotating in two seconds flat.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate for a circuit: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate is an instrument-approach check and does not apply.
Side view — the last 4,984 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the full 4,984 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,148 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Cessna Skyhawk began with a departure roll on runway 14 at KEWB New Bedford Regional Airport. The takeoff distance was 990 feet, which represented 20% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 55 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were a temperature of 52°F with a wind speed of 0 knots coming from a heading of 225°. There was no crosswind or headwind present during takeoff.
After takeoff, a left-hand pattern entry was made back to runway 14 at KEWB. The distance covered in this leg was less than 1 nautical mile and was completed in 4 seconds. Subsequently, a left-hand crosswind leg was performed, covering a distance of less than 1 nm in 37 seconds.
During the pattern downwind turn, the distance covered was 1 nm, and the angle to the runway was 178.3°. The downwind leg was 1 nm long and took 107 seconds to complete. The base leg turn covered a distance of 1 nm, with an angle to the runway of 177.0°.
The flight concluded with a landing on runway 32 at KEWB New Bedford Regional Airport. The runway length was 4,984 feet, and the approach began at an altitude of 84 feet above ground level. The speed at the threshold was 64 knots. The touchdown was 1,138 feet from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 48 knots and a vertical speed indicator reading of -43 ft/min. The local weather at the time of landing was a temperature of 51°F with a wind speed of 0 knots coming from a heading of 339°. There was no crosswind or headwind present during landing.
The total flight distance was 3 nm, taking 7 minutes to complete and using a total of 6 lbs of fuel.
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