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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 79 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 60 kt, 19 kt before the 79 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 79 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Add power on short final to hold 86 kt at the threshold rather than letting speed decay.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 75 kt against a target of 86 kt, below reference speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, hold 86 kt down to the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
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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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 60 kt, 19 kt before the 79 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,292 m runway.
Rolled from 801 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 10 m at the widest, and lifted off 10 m left. Airborne 33 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to 233 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,915 m of runway left; then climbing at 830 fpm on average to 233 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second.
Left-hand, 1,000 ft circuit height. The plan shows your circuit over a textbook one for this runway; the profile unrolls the same path from liftoff to the threshold.
Plan landing direction to the left; in pale blue the textbook circuit for your downwind speed, 1.3 nm out at 125 kt
The lap from above, with the landing direction to the left: the opposite of the runway drawings. The wide pale-blue line is a textbook circuit for your downwind speed - the downwind a mile out for every 100 kt, every turn at 30° of bank - and your track is drawn over it, each leg in the colour of its mark. The numbers are the four turns, the same as on the profile and the cards below. The 45° line from the threshold is the usual point to turn onto base.
Around the circuit height and bank; the turns are shaded
The same lap straightened out, so the height and the bank can be read together. Each shaded stretch is a turn, numbered as on the plan. The green box is circuit height, 1,000 ft, on the downwind. The amber line is 30° of bank, and a turn's steepest bank shows red above 32°. "Turn crosswind from" is the lowest height to start the first turn at.
Early: turned crosswind before the end of the runway, at 822 ft.
Upwind (departure). Climb straight ahead on the extended centreline. Don't turn early. A curved departure leg makes every subsequent leg unrepeatable.
Read more in Pattern WorkSteep: 42° of bank.
Bank angle in the pattern is conventionally kept to 20 to 30 degrees, and the base-to-final turn is where that convention earns its keep. Stall speed rises with bank because the wing must produce more lift in a turn. Roughly 7 per cent higher at 30 degrees, about 19 per cent at 45, and around 40 per cent at 60. At 65 kt on base you don't have much margin to spend steepening a turn to salvage an overshoot.
Read more in Pattern WorkGood: full marks on the turn and the leg after it.
Steep: 39° of bank.
From abeam the threshold, fly roughly 30 to 45 seconds before turning base, in nil wind at 172 speeds. Treat that as a starting value and calibrate it. If your finals keep coming out at 400 ft instead of 500, add a few seconds. Then adjust for wind, roughly a second per knot of headwind on final (a headwind on final is a tailwind on downwind, carrying you further from the field per second).
Read more in Pattern WorkThe final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 30 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.
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 530 m left of the centreline at 1.2 nm, then inside the band 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 1.2 nm, where the final began, to 0.5 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −13 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 35 ft, 29 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 280 m in, close to 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 310 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.5° on the way down. Into the flare at 77 kt, 9 kt under the 86 kt approach speed, and 67 kt at touchdown.
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 3,292 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.4 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.4 m left at the widest. 4 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 67 kt. Touched down with the nose 4° into wind, wings level.
Wind 080° at 6 kt · 4 kt head · 4 kt across
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. 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 280 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 64 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 19 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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.
The rest of the report
The Pilatus PC-12 departed from runway 12 at UBBG Ganja International Airport. Take-off used 1,124 m, 34 % of the runway, with rotation at 60 kt. Local weather was 10 °C, wind 5 kt from 080°, giving a 4 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind.
During the initial climb the aircraft reached 400 ft agl in 14 seconds, averaging 855 fpm and attaining 82 kt at the top of the climb.
The left-hand circuit for runway 12 lasted 3 minutes. The downwind leg was 1 nm, flown in 42 seconds at 1,110 ft agl, and the base leg was less than 1 nm, completed in 7 seconds.
On final approach the descent was from 480 ft agl to 53 ft agl in 55 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on speed.
Landing was on runway 12, whose length is 3,292 m and had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly below target at 75 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 280 m down the runway at 67 kt with a rate of -83 fpm; alignment was very good and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 774 m, 24 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 9 °C, wind 7 kt from 080°, giving a 5 kt crosswind and a 5 kt headwind.
The entire flight covered 7 nm in 4 minutes and consumed 14 kg of fuel.
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