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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use coordinated aileron input to level the wings and hold bank angle close to wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the initial climb, your average bank angle drifted to 3.3°.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, bank angle near wings-level
Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 20 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 20 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 20 ft to touchdown.
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 133 kt with 6.9° 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 982 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,010 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,820 fpm on average to 982 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 1,995 m runway.
Rolled from 18 m in, drifted 2.6 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 38 % 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.
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 3.4° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 190 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: 3.4° here, which is about 360 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 26× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 14 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 63 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 38 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +17 kt on the approach speed of 125 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
Very poor landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 140° at 3 kt · 3 kt tail · 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 114 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 1,771 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 924 m in, 619 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 1,771 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 510 fpm at 43 ft to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.3° 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 1,771 m of the 2,483 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.3 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.
Touched down 924 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Honda HA420 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Haugesund Airport, Karmøy, taking 7 minutes and covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 13, with the aircraft lifting off after a takeoff distance of 796 meters, which was 40% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 133 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 4°C temperature and a wind speed of 10 knots at 110 degrees. The crosswind was 4 knots, while the headwind was 9 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile south of Visnes, Norway, where the aircraft climbed from 1,100 feet above sea level to 12,661 feet, an increase of 11,561 feet in just 4 minutes, covering a distance of 14 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began 5 miles east of Tysvaer, Norway, and lasted for 314 minutes, covering a distance of 704 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its enroute descent 19 miles southeast of Kolari, Finland, where it descended from 13,006 feet to 2,247 feet, a decrease of 10,759 feet in 8 minutes, covering a distance of 33 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 34 at Kittilä Airport, Finland, was made from the south, with the aircraft heading 346.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,600 feet above ground level. The landing took place on a runway length of 2,483 meters, with a good threshold height. However, the threshold speed was excessively high at 137 knots. The touchdown point was 504 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 114 knots, which was fast. The touchdown rate was excellent at -92 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were -20°C temperature and a wind speed of 3 knots at 140 degrees, with a crosswind of 1 knot and a tailwind of 3 knots. The total landing distance was 1,686 meters, which was 68% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect. The taxiing to the parking area from the runway took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile.
In total, the flight distance was 761 nautical miles, taking 168 minutes, and the aircraft used 245 kilograms of fuel.
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