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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 127 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 112 kt against a target of 127 kt, running 15 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 127 kt.
Arrival
Add power earlier on final so you reach 86 kt by the stabilisation gate, not just somewhere later on the approach.
What happened: The aircraft was 13 kt slow at the stabilisation gate, and arriving low on energy that early usually carries through to the threshold, where it crossed 15 kt under the approach speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 86 kt at the gate and 86 kt at the threshold.
Below 10,000 ft you are typically limited to 250 kt indicated (a US rule that much of the world mirrors in some form, though not universally). This forces a deceleration around 10,000 ft whether the profile wants one or not, so plan for it rather than discovering it.
Start to finish · 16 stages, 13 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 77 kt, 6 kt before the 83 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,227 m runway.
Rolled from 108 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.2 m left. Airborne 18 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 888 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,320 m of runway left; gear up at 46 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 910 fpm on average to 888 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
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 86 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow from 3.0 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 230 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 93 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to 3.4 nm (up to −27 kt), then inside the band to 3.0 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −15 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
Excellent landing flare
It lost 1.3 points, for the nose going up and down 2 times.
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 40 ft, 59 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 272 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 680 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.4° on the way down. Into the flare at 72 kt, 14 kt under the 86 kt approach speed, and 67 kt at touchdown.
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 2,972 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 10 m right on the rollout, back to 0.3 m left by the end. 8 kt across from the right, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 67 kt. Touched down with 7° of it still on, 2.1° of bank.
Wind 030° at 8 kt · 1 kt tail · 8 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 272 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 69 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 26 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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.
The rest of the report
The Pilatus PC-12 taxied from the parking area to runway 35 at UBBB Heydar Aliyev International Airport, a taxi of 25 minutes covering 2 nm.
Take-off was on runway 35. The aircraft used 604 m of runway (19 % of runway) and rotated at 77 kt. Local weather was 16 °C, wind 0 kt from 179°, with no cross- or head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 56 seconds, averaging 939 fpm and reaching 114 kt at the top of the climb.
The climb continued from 945 ft asl to 20 345 ft asl in 10 minutes, covering 23 nm, beginning about 1 mile north of UBBB.
Cruise was level at 20 000 ft asl for 20 minutes, covering 76 nm, beginning about 1 mile east of Saray.
Descent began at 19 409 ft asl and proceeded to 2 637 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 63 nm, starting 5 miles east of Ahmadbayli, with a brief level-off at 2 600 ft asl.
A go-around was executed on runway 29 at UBBF Fuzuli International Airport at 1 391 ft agl.
On the subsequent final approach to runway 29 at UBBF, descent was from 1 242 ft agl to 20 ft agl in 188 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met. Configuration was landing gear down at 2 062 ft agl at 85 kt and final flap position 3 at 2 064 ft agl at 80 kt.
Landing occurred on runway 29 (runway length 2 972 m). The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was a little below target at 71 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown was at 272 m down the runway, speed 67 kt, rate -116 fpm, with perfect runway-touchdown alignment and no bounce.
Total landing distance was 876 m (29 % of runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 10.3 m. Local weather at landing was 13 °C, wind 10 kt from 010°, giving a 10 kt cross-wind and 3 kt head-wind component.
The entire flight covered 170 nm in 59 minutes and used 227 kg of fuel.
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