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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Lower the gear before the stabilisation gate rather than configuring late on approach.
What happened: Gear was not down by the approach gate, and sink came back at 211 fpm after the flare had arrested it. Gear left late in the approach often carries into a rushed, unstable flare where the sink return follows.
Watch for: Gear position indicator, confirmed down before each stabilisation gate.
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 98 kt with 3.7° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 124 kt, 7 kt over its 117 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 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 885 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 649 m of runway left; gear up at 25 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,450 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 1,567 m runway.
Rolled from 126 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 49 % 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: seven 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: gear still up.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: left of the centreline until 2.3 nm, sinking too fast until 2.2 nm, banked until 2.1 nm, gear up until 0.8 nm, fast from 3.0 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 3.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 620 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,405 m left of the centreline at 3.7 nm, then inside the band from 2.3 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 47 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 28 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 3.7 nm, where the final began, to 3.0 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +49 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 4.2 points, for touching down at 0.2°, under the aircraft's ground attitude.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 207° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 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 107 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 23 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 28 ft, 22 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 19 ft. Touched down 502 m in, 197 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 570 fpm at the flare to 180 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,544 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.5 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6.6 m left 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 502 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport (KGKT), the Vision Jet initiated its departure roll on runway 28, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 98 kt within a distance of 783 meters, which was 50% of the available runway length. The aircraft then transitioned into a climb, reaching a maximum altitude of 16,569 feet above sea level (asl) as it traversed the Tennessee and North Carolina landscape. The enroute climb phase was notable for its steep ascent, with the aircraft gaining 14,479 feet in just 11 minutes, covering a distance of 36 nautical miles.
Following the climb, the Vision Jet entered a level cruise phase, maintaining an altitude of 16,408 feet asl for 7 minutes while covering 33 nautical miles. This was followed by a descent phase, initiated overhead Hayesville, North Carolina, where the aircraft descended from 16,569 feet asl to 3,444 feet asl in 10 minutes, covering a distance of 43 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 23 at Heaven's Landing Airport (GE99) was initiated from the north-east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 220.0° at 2 nautical miles and 717 feet above ground level (agl).
The Vision Jet touched down on runway 23 at GE99, with a touchdown point located 127 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed of 102 kt was slightly above the recommended threshold speed, while the touchdown rate of -275 feet per minute was considered fair. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.6 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance of 1,011 meters was 64% of the available runway length, with the runway rollout alignment being very good. The Vision Jet consumed a total of -224 kg of fuel during the 30-minute flight, covering a distance of 115 nautical miles.
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