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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 1.2° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 3.4° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final so threshold speed settles at 80 kt instead of carrying it into the flare.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 99 kt, well above the 80 kt target speed, and that excess speed was still showing at touchdown. Crossing the threshold fast usually carries straight through to a fast touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 80 kt on short final.
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 96 kt with 6.2° 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 1,012 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,072 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,100 fpm on average to 1,012 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 3,284 m runway.
Rolled from 218 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 6 m left. Airborne 25 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 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° 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, 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 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 47 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 28 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +2 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 93 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
Great landing flare
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 96 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 85 s, an average deceleration of 0.04 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 1,977 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 60 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 513 m in, 208 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 1,977 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 690 fpm at 57 ft to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.9° 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 1,977 m of the 3,474 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.4 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.
Touched down 513 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 35 at UBBB Heydar Aliyev International Airport. The Beechcraft Baron G58 aircraft took off with a takeoff distance of 699 meters, which accounted for 21% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 96 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 5 knots from a direction of 169 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a tailwind of 5 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb 1 mile north of UBBB Heydar Aliyev International Airport. The climb took place from an initial altitude of 1,013 feet above sea level to a final altitude of 8,842 feet above sea level, representing an increase of 7,830 feet in just 9 minutes. During this time, the aircraft covered a distance of 13 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 5 miles northeast of Corat, a city located in Sumqayit City, Azerbaijan. This phase of the flight lasted for 32 minutes and covered a distance of 76 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its enroute descent 11 miles south of Ismayilli, a city located in Ismayilli Rayon, Azerbaijan. The descent took place from an initial altitude of 8,774 feet above sea level to a final altitude of 2,606 feet above sea level, representing a decrease of 6,168 feet in just 9 minutes. During this time, the aircraft covered a distance of 20 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 34 at UBBQ Gabala International Airport was made from the south, with the aircraft heading 347.0 degrees at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,474 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 34, which had a length of 3,474 meters. However, the threshold height at 60 feet above ground level was above the target, and the threshold speed was too high at 99 knots.
The touchdown point was 86 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 91 knots, which was faster than desired. However, the touchdown rate was excellent at -92 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.1 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 1,885 meters, which accounted for 54% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.0 meters from the centerline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area from the runway, taking 2 minutes to cover a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 117 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 58 minutes. The aircraft used 48 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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