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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
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 134 kt with 16.2° 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 905 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 953 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,750 fpm on average to 905 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 1,831 m runway.
Rolled from 200 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 19 m at the widest, and lifted off 19 m left. 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3° and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high until 0.5 nm, fast until 0.3 nm, banked until 0.3 nm, sinking too fast from 0.7 nm and left of the centreline from 0.5 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 1° band in green.
Outside the glideslope band twice; furthest off 350 ft high at 2.0 nm.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 4,063 m right of the centreline, then 28 m left of it from 0.5 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.1 nm, then fast to 0.3 nm (up to +19 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
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 69 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 134 m in, 170 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 1,524 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 900 fpm at 26 ft to 0 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 3.5° 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 2,190 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.8 m left of the centreline and drifted to 11 m left on 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 134 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 34 minutes and covered a distance of 6 nautical miles. The aircraft then departed from runway 24 at Teterboro Airport (KTEB) and took off with a takeoff distance of 493 meters, which was 27% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 134 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 15°C. The enroute climb started overhead Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, where the aircraft climbed from 951 feet above sea level (asl) to 15,051 feet asl, an increase of 14,100 feet in 7 minutes, covering a distance of 15 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its descent from 15,214 feet asl to 5,108 feet asl, a decrease of 10,106 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 24 nautical miles. This descent started overhead Chatham, New Jersey. The aircraft then climbed again from 5,079 feet asl to 6,073 feet asl, an increase of 994 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles, starting 1 mile south east of Flemington, New Jersey.
The aircraft continued its descent from 5,835 feet asl to 5,128 feet asl, a decrease of 707 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles, starting 1 mile north east of Stockton, New Jersey. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, starting 2 miles north west of PS68 Buckingham Airport Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and lasted for 36 minutes, covering a distance of 116 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its descent from 5,142 feet asl to 2,099 feet asl, a decrease of 3,043 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles, starting overhead Goddard, Maryland. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, starting 1 mile north east of Bloomingdale, District of Columbia, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its descent from 1,955 feet asl to 1,023 feet asl, a decrease of 932 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles, starting overhead Rosslyn, Virginia. The aircraft then climbed from 1,044 feet asl to 3,210 feet asl, an increase of 2,165 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles, starting overhead Arlington, Virginia.
The aircraft then began its descent from 3,240 feet asl to 1,015 feet asl, a decrease of 2,225 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles, starting 1 mile south east of McLean, Virginia. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, starting 1 mile north of Rosslyn, Virginia, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 19 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA) was made from the north, heading 178.0° at 0 nautical miles and 193 feet above ground level (agl). The landing on runway 19 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 136 meters, which was good. However, the touchdown speed of 134 knots was too fast, and the touchdown rate was very heavy at -778 feet per minute (fpm).
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.2 meters from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned by 13.6 meters from the centre
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