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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 136 kt with 7.3° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 158 kt target, at 155 kt on average.
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 896 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,540 m of runway left; gear up at 41 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,130 fpm on average to 896 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 3,030 m runway.
Rolled from 89 m in, drifted 3.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 40 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 1.1 nm, then not again: fast from 1.1 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 180 ft below 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 16× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 24 m off the centreline.
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 28 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.1 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +16 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 3.2 points, for starting the flare at 50 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 210° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 1 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 106 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 45 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.
Side view — the last 1,801 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 50 ft, 41 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 39 ft, 11 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 437 m in, 132 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 1,801 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 930 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.3° 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 1,801 m of the 2,901 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1 m of it down 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 437 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, the RJ85 aircraft began its journey on runway 24L, taking off with a distance of 1,230 meters, which accounted for 41% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 136 knots, with a local temperature of 22 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind of 2 knots at 19 degrees.
As the aircraft climbed out of Cleveland, it began its enroute climb, reaching an altitude of 32,961 feet in 28 minutes, covering a distance of 192 nautical miles. The climb was steady, with the aircraft reaching its cruising altitude in a relatively short period. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a brief level cruise, lasting 5 minutes and covering 42 nautical miles, before beginning its descent. The descent started over the Haunstein Ultralightport Shermans Dale in Pennsylvania, with the aircraft losing 25,961 feet in 14 minutes, covering 97 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another brief level cruise, lasting 2 minutes and covering 8 nautical miles, before continuing its descent.
The final approach to runway 27R at Philadelphia International Airport was made from the east, with the aircraft descending from 7,002 feet to 1,176 feet in 6 minutes, covering 23 nautical miles. The landing was smooth, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 105 knots and a touchdown rate of -167 feet per minute. The total landing distance was 1,717 meters, accounting for 59% of the runway. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking 4 minutes to cover 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 371 nautical miles, with a total fuel consumption of 2,221 kilograms and a flight duration of 69 minutes.
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