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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 50 kt, not after it.
What happened: You started the rotation at 70 kt, 20 kt past the 50 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 50 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Reduce power sooner on final so you cross the threshold at 54 kt, carrying that speed into the flare.
What happened: Crossing the threshold at 74 kt, 20 kt above 54 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: 54 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 · 12 stages, 10 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 70 kt, 20 kt above the 50 kt target, and lifted off at 75 kt 0.6 s later, the nose coming up at 7.1° a second. Climb 3 averaged 119 kt, 7 kt over its 112 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 0 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 511 m runway.
Rolled from 77 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.5 m left, in 9 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 57 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 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 300 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 13 kt above the approach speed of 54 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, banked until 2.6 nm, gear up until 2.0 nm, no landing flap until 1.5 nm, left of the centreline from 1.2 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 3.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 530 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 2,003 m right of the centreline at 3.1 nm, then 111 m left of it from 1.2 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 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +86 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 held the target profile well. The flare was flown from 41 ft agl over the threshold, well above the target height, so the aircraft was above the profile for most of the landing. Touchdown was 189 m past the threshold. The flare cannot recover height that was never lost - fly the approach down to the aim point and the flare has somewhere to start from.
10 kt across from the right, which takes about 11° of crab to hold the centreline at 55 kt. Touched down with the nose 15° into wind, 4° of bank.
Wind 319° at 11 kt · 1 kt tail · 10 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 63 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.26 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 520 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 32 ft. Touched down 189 m in, 116 m short of 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 520 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 1,010 fpm at the flare to 460 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 9.5° 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 full 520 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 16 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.2 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 189 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 457 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a take-off from runway 04 at LFLJ Courchevel Altiport. The aircraft used 300 m of runway, which is 59 % of the available length, and rotated at 70 kt. Local weather at departure was 4 °C with wind 10 kt from 317°, giving a 10 kt crosswind component and a 1 kt headwind component.
During the initial climb the aircraft reached 1 000 ft agl in 15 seconds, attaining a speed of 126 kt at the top of the climb. Afterward it levelled at 6 700 ft asl for about 3 minutes, covering 6 nm and passing overhead Courchevel.
The descent for the final approach to runway 22 at LFLJ Courchevel Altiport started from 136 ft agl and continued to -112 ft agl in 49 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed and wings level, but the aircraft was not on centreline.
Landing was made on runway 22, whose length is 520 m. The threshold height was good, though the threshold speed was excessively high at 74 kt. The flare was described as excellent, and the aircraft crossed the threshold high. Touchdown occurred 189 m down the runway at a speed of 54 kt, which was fast, with a hard touchdown rate of minus 458 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 16.6 m from the centreline, but there was no bounce. The total landing roll was 343 m, representing 66 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
Local weather at landing was 4 °C with wind 11 kt from 319°, giving an 11 kt crosswind component and a 1 kt tailwind component. The entire flight covered 8 nm in 4 minutes and consumed 1 kg of fuel.
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