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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Shorten the long landing
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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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 104 kt with 2.4° 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 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 960 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 5,143 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,780 fpm on average to 960 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 8,519 ft runway.
Rolled from 686 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 22 ft at the widest, and lifted off 19 ft left. Airborne 31 % 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 220 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, 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 20× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 60 ft 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 260° at 3 kt · 3 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 73 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 18 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 6,821 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 84 ft, 34 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 5,413 ft in, 4,413 ft past 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 6,821 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.
From 82 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 150 fpm before coming down at 40 fpm to touch. The nose came up 6.6° 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 6,821 ft of the 13,078 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 10 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 11 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.
Touched down 5,413 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Cockspur C510 began with taxiing from the parking area to the runway at LIRP Pisa International Airport, a distance of 2 nm covered in 10 minutes. The departure roll took place on runway 04R, with a takeoff distance of 1,981 ft, representing 23% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 105 kn. Local weather conditions at the time of departure included a temperature of 58 °F, with a wind speed of 1 kn coming from 79 °, resulting in a crosswind of 1 kn and a headwind of 1 kn.
The enroute climb commenced overhead Pisa in Toscana, Italy, climbing from 1,008 ft asl to 17,925 ft asl, covering 19 nm in 8 minutes. The next phase was the enroute level cruise, which began 13 miles southwest of Viareggio, lasting 61 minutes and covering 242 nm. Following this was the enroute descent, starting 1 mile north of Rottenbuch in Bavaria, Germany, descending from 17,922 ft asl to 4,996 ft asl, covering 53 nm in 11 minutes. Another brief enroute level cruise followed, starting 1 mile southeast of Lengdorf in Bavaria, lasting 2 minutes and covering 9 nm. The final descent of the flight began 1 mile southwest of Velden in Bavaria, descending from 4,981 ft asl to 3,236 ft asl, covering 11 nm in 5 minutes.
The landing occurred on runway 26R at EDDM Munich Airport, with a runway length of 13,078 ft. The aircraft was at a height of 85 ft agl at the threshold, with a speed of 119 kn. The touchdown took place 5,326 ft from the threshold at a speed of 75 kn, with a VSI of -50 ft/m. Local weather conditions at the time of landing included a temperature of 41 °F, with a wind speed of 3 kn coming from 260 °, resulting in a crosswind of 0 kn and a headwind of 3 kn. The total landing distance was 6,404 ft, representing 49% of the runway length.
Finally, taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 345 nm, with a flight duration of 140 minutes and fuel consumption of 864 lbs.
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