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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Add power on approach to bring the speed up to 119 kt before the stabilisation gate, not after it.
What happened: The approach was already slow at the stabilisation gate, and a slow gate like that usually carries through to a slow threshold crossing - here 100 kt against the 119 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 119 kt on approach, carrying through to 119 kt at the threshold.
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 131 kt with 6.3° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 162 kt, 17 kt under its 179 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 773 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,547 m of runway left; gear up at 120 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,350 fpm on average to 773 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 3,406 m runway.
Rolled from 656 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.1 m right, in 9 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 46 % 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.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 119 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 2.0 nm, then not again: slow from 2.0 nm and left of the centreline from 0.4 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 130 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 7× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then 14 m left of it 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 60 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 36 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.0 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −19 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 3.0 points, for touching down 9.8° above the aircraft's ground attitude.
9 kt across from the right, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 89 kt. Touched down with 5° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 270° at 21 kt · 19 kt head · 9 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 74 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 26 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 45 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 27 ft. Touched down 284 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 650 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.0° 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 1,524 m of the 3,052 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.4 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.1 m right 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 284 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at LTAI Antalya International Airport took approximately 5 minutes, covering a distance of 1 nautical mile. The Honda HA420 then began its departure roll on runway 36R, utilizing 48% of the available runway length to achieve a takeoff distance of 1,635 meters. Liftoff speed was reached at 131 knots, as the aircraft lifted off into the local weather conditions, characterized by a temperature of 25 °C and wind speeds of 15 knots at 130°.
As the aircraft climbed from 964 feet above sea level to 42,867 feet, it covered a distance of 110 nautical miles in 25 minutes, achieving an impressive increase of 41,904 feet. The enroute climb phase was followed by a brief level cruise, lasting 7 minutes and covering 39 nautical miles, before the aircraft began its descent towards its next destination. The descent phase, which spanned 21 minutes and covered 114 nautical miles, saw the aircraft decrease its altitude from 43,005 feet to 5,006 feet. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, lasting 9 minutes and covering 32 nautical miles, before commencing its final descent towards LTFJ Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport.
The final approach to runway 24R was executed from the north east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 243.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,482 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 89 knots and a touchdown rate of -161 feet per minute. The touchdown distance was 279 meters, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.2 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 973 meters, accounting for 33% of the available runway length. The aircraft then rolled out perfectly, aligning itself with the runway centerline. The total flight distance was 313 nautical miles, covering a duration of 76 minutes and utilizing 469 kilograms of fuel.
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