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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use coordinated aileron input to level the wings and hold bank angle close to wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the initial climb, your average bank angle drifted to 14°.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, bank angle near wings-level
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.
Read more in Improve Your Take-OffsStart to finish · 19 stages, 14 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.
Lifted off at 80 kt with 9.8° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 58 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 6,378 ft of runway left.
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.
Plan view the roll down the 11,471 ft runway.
Rolled from 1,971 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 11 ft at the widest, and lifted off 11 ft right. Airborne 25 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 0.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 290 ft over).
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.
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.
Joined 200 ft left of the centreline at 0.6 nm.
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 16 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 10 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 0.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +50 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.
three-point landing
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 2 kt · 2 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 931 ft in, close to 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 280 fpm at 29 ft to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.1° 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 11,471 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 21 ft right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 21 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 931 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.23 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Horten Ho229 taxied from the parking area to runway 06 at UUWW Vnukovo International Airport, a movement that lasted 26 minutes and covered 3 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 06. The aircraft used 1,025 ft of runway, which is 9 % of the available length, and lifted off at 80 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 60 °F, wind 2 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
Initial climb to 50 ft agl took 13 seconds, averaging 302 fpm and reaching 132 kt at the top of the segment. The right-hand circuit was completed in under a minute, and the overall circuit time was 2 minutes.
Climb continued from 716 ft asl to 6,737 ft asl in 4 minutes, covering 10 nm while passing overhead Annino.
Descent from 6,441 ft asl to 2,537 ft asl took 2 minutes over 6 nm, beginning overhead Ramenki.
A further climb from 2,573 ft asl to 30,653 ft asl was completed in 6 minutes, covering 21 nm and passing overhead Moscow.
The final descent from 30,717 ft asl to 1,064 ft asl lasted 7 minutes, covering 27 nm, starting 3 miles north-west of Zhavoronki, with a brief level-off at 2,100 ft asl.
Landing was on runway 06 at UUWW Vnukovo International Airport, whose length is 11,471 ft and has a good threshold height. The threshold speed was 91 kt, noted as too high. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred at 77 kt with a rate of -42 fpm, and the touchdown distance was 931 ft, judged good. The aircraft touched down slightly misaligned by 21 ft from the centreline and experienced one bounce. Total landing distance was 1,683 ft, representing 15 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was temperature 59 °F, wind 2 kt from 270°, with a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
After landing, the Ho229 taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 71 nm, lasted 24 minutes, and consumed 350 lb of fuel.
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