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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Hold the landing attitude until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 229 fpm, firmer than a full-marks touchdown. The threshold speed, the threshold height and the flare all scored well, so nothing before the touchdown explains it.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 229 fpm next time
Start to finish · 18 stages, 16 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated late
The nose came up at 91 kt, 7 kt after the 84 kt rotate speed.
The pull started after the rotate speed had gone by. Bring the airspeed into the scan as it approaches the rotate speed, so the pull starts on the number rather than when you notice it has passed.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,987 m runway.
Rolled from 56 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.7 m right. Airborne 24 % 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 959 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,986 m of runway left; gear up at 269 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,160 fpm on average to 959 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.
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 170 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,235 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 0.3 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 41 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −7 kt and +0 kt on the approach speed of 82 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,218 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 36 ft, 31 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 195 m in, 110 m short of 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 1,218 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 850 fpm at the flare to 230 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.8° on the way down. Into the flare at 76 kt, 6 kt under the 82 kt approach speed, and 66 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 full 1,218 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 0.8 m of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 269° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 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 195 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 229 fpm arrival was firm.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 69 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 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.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA42 Twin Star taxied from the parking area to runway 07L at KDAB Daytona Beach International Airport, a movement that required 16 minutes and covered 4 nm.
Departure roll commenced on runway 07L, and the aircraft lifted off after a ground run of 760 m, representing 25 % of the available runway. Liftoff speed was recorded at 94 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 269°, a cross-wind component of 0 kt and a tail-wind component of 1 kt.
Climb began overhead KDAB, with the aircraft ascending from 998 ft asl to 8 006 ft asl, an increase of 7 007 ft achieved in 6 minutes while covering 10 nm.
The first cruise segment started 1 mile north of KOMN Ormond Beach Municipal Airport and continued for 10 minutes, during which 29 nm were traversed.
Descent commenced 1 mile southwest of Butler Beach, descending from 7 983 ft asl to 5 503 ft asl, a loss of 2 481 ft in 3 minutes over a distance of 9 nm.
A second cruise phase began 1 mile south of KSGJ Northeast Florida Regional Airport, lasting 5 minutes and covering 13 nm.
The next descent started 4 miles northwest of Nocatee, with altitude decreasing from 5 006 ft asl to 3 005 ft asl, a reduction of 2 002 ft in 3 minutes while flying 8 nm.
A third cruise segment originated 5 miles southwest of KCRG Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport, persisting for 5 minutes and encompassing 13 nm.
Descent resumed 4 miles south of KJAX Jacksonville International Airport, dropping from 2 999 ft asl to 1 268 ft asl, a loss of 1 731 ft in 4 minutes across 11 nm.
Final approach to runway 14 at KCRG Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport involved a descent from 499 ft agl to 29 ft agl in 40 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 14 was executed with a threshold speed of 75 kt (slightly below target), touchdown distance of 192 m, touchdown speed of 66 kt, and a touchdown rate of minus 230 fpm. Runway length is 1 218 m; total landing distance measured 422 m, equivalent to 35 % of the runway. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and local weather reported 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, a cross-wind of 1 kt and a tail-wind of 1 kt.
Runway rollout proceeded with perfect alignment, confirming the aircraft remained on centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
Taxi-in from the runway to the parking area required less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 99 nm, required 51 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 28 kg of fuel.
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