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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 178 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 150 kt against a target of 178 kt, running 28 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 178 kt.
Arrival
Reduce power sooner on final so you cross the threshold at 114 kt, carrying that speed into the flare.
What happened: Crossing the threshold at 126 kt, 12 kt above 114 kt, usually leaves extra energy that lets the sink come back after the flare has arrested it, and that returning sink usually carries through to a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 114 kt at the threshold.
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, 15 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 115 kt, 6 kt above the 109 kt target, and lifted off at 126 kt 2.9 s later, the nose coming up at 2.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 150 kt, 28 kt under its 178 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 885 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 298 m of runway left; gear up at 48 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,270 fpm on average to 885 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,921 m runway.
Rolled from 158 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.6 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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 17 kt above the approach speed of 114 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, gear up until 2.5 nm, banked until 2.3 nm, high until 0.3 nm, sinking too fast until 0.2 nm, right of the centreline from 0.4 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 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 3.6 nm, where the final began, to 2.7 nm, then high to 0.3 nm (up to 440 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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.
Joined 1,498 m left of the centreline at 3.6 nm, then inside it from 0.6 to 0.4 nm, then 14 m right of it from 0.4 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 29 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +52 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
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare arrested the sink and then let it come back - 637 fpm of it - so the aircraft dropped the last few feet. Touchdown was 752 m past the threshold. Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 0 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.
From 103 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 25 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 1,596 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 39 ft, 5 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 5 ft from 4 ft. Touched down 752 m in, 447 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 1,596 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 the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 200 fpm before coming down at 450 fpm to touch. The nose came up 2.2° 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 1,596 m of the 1,829 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.1 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2.6 m left by the end of the rollout.
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.
Touched down 752 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 447 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Bombardier Challenger 350 taxied from the parking area to runway 19 at KJAC Jackson Hole Airport, a movement that lasted 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 19, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 1,200 m, representing 62 % of the runway. Liftoff was achieved at 126 kt. Ambient conditions were temperature 16 °C with wind 1 kt from 270 °, a cross-wind of 1 kt and no head-wind.
Enroute climb began approximately 1 mile south of KJAC, with the aircraft climbing from 7,674 ft asl to 42,589 ft asl, an increase of 34,916 ft accomplished in 26 minutes while covering 166 nm.
Level cruise was established 14 miles south-west of 10WY Willow Creek Ranch Airport and continued for 139 minutes, during which 1,089 nm were flown.
Descent started 1 mile south-east of TN24 Spencer Field, with altitude decreasing from 43,008 ft asl to 2,727 ft asl, a loss of 40,282 ft over 24 minutes and a distance of 134 nm.
A further climb segment commenced 1 mile south-west of North Druid Hills, raising the aircraft from 2,656 ft asl to 3,134 ft asl, an increase of 477 ft in 1 minute while covering 3 nm.
A short level cruise followed overhead of Scottdale, lasting 2 minutes and covering 6 nm.
The approach to KPDK DeKalb Peachtree Airport was conducted in a right-hand pattern. Entry to the pattern covered less than 1 nm in 8 seconds. The downwind turn spanned 1 nm with a runway angle of 137.4 °. The downwind leg was less than 1 nm in 5 seconds. The base-leg turn covered 2 nm with a runway angle of 0.0 °. Final approach to runway 03R descended from 1,638 ft agl to 153 ft agl in 85 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 03R was performed with a runway length of 1,829 m. The threshold speed was 127 kt and the touchdown point was 327 m beyond the touchdown zone. Touchdown speed was 101 kt, and touchdown rate was fair at minus 269 fpm. The aircraft was slightly misaligned by 7.1 m from the centreline. Local weather reported temperature 15 °C with wind 1 kt from 270 °, a cross-wind of 1 kt and no head-wind.
Runway rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,506 m, 82 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 8.6 m.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,409 nm, took 206 minutes, and consumed 2,750 kg of fuel.
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