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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Rotate the moment the speed tape reaches 137 kt, not after it.
What happened: Rotation was held until 157 kt, 20 kt past the 137 kt rotation target. Carrying that much extra speed into rotation usually adds unwanted energy right at liftoff.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the 137 kt rotation target.
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.
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 157 kt with 8.3° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 188 kt, 12 kt over its 176 kt target.
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 918 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 834 m of runway left; gear up at 67 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,960 fpm on average to 918 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,565 m runway.
Rolled from 213 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 4 m right, in 5 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 56 % 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 six 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.4 nm, about 200 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 110 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 17× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 21 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +0 kt and +14 kt on the approach speed of 128 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
The flare wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.4° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 339 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
11 kt across from the right, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 125 kt. Touched down with 5° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 279° at 14 kt · 9 kt head · 11 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 123 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 51 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 1,777 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 62 ft, 12 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 20 ft. Touched down 339 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 1,777 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 820 fpm at the flare to 420 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.4° 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 1,777 m of the 2,742 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.5 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 339 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 418 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Departing from runway 10L at KFLL Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport, the aircraft taxied from the parking position for 14 minutes, covering 3 nm before the takeoff roll. The takeoff distance was 1,454 m, representing 57 % of the available runway, and liftoff speed reached 158 kt. The departure weather featured a temperature of 34 °C, a 9-kt wind from 130°, with a crosswind component of 6 kt and a headwind of 7 kt.
The climb phase began immediately after departure, rising from 1,009 ft to 38,116 ft over 14 minutes and 89 nm, an increase of 37,108 ft. Cruise was maintained for 130 minutes, covering 938 nm, before a descent commenced 5 mi south of CPE5 Port Colborne Airport. The descent lowered the aircraft from 38,056 ft to 3,285 ft in 15 minutes and 79 nm, a decrease of 34,772 ft. A brief cruise segment of 3 minutes covered 8 nm before the final approach to runway 24L at CYYZ Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport.
On approach, the aircraft entered the final glide from the northeast, heading 227.0° at 4 nm and 1,270 ft AGL. Landing on runway 24L, the threshold speed was 131 kt and touchdown speed 125 kt, with a touchdown distance of 340 m and a touchdown rate of minus 597 fpm. The touchdown position was 5.8 m off the centreline. The total landing distance was 1,696 m, 62 % of the runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking position in 9 minutes, covering 2 nm. The entire flight covered 1,125 nm, lasted 181 minutes, and consumed 5,156 kg of fuel.
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