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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 794 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final so speed is back to 129 kt before the gate, not after it.
What happened: Speed control was already loose at the stabilisation gate, and this flight crossed the threshold at 144 kt against a target of 129 kt, 15 kt fast. Carrying excess speed into the gate like this usually carries straight through to a fast threshold crossing.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 129 kt by the gate and held to 129 kt at the threshold.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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 35 kt FAST on the reference speed of 129 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,768 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 296 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
A Cessna Longitude departed from a location west of Rockford, Tennessee, initiating its enroute climb. The aircraft rapidly ascended from 1,974 feet above sea level to 4,231 feet, a gain of 2,257 feet in just 1 minute, while covering 2 nautical miles. Following this initial climb, the aircraft transitioned into a level cruise, maintaining an altitude of 4,231 feet for 2 minutes as it traveled 6 nautical miles southeast of the TN98 Sky Ranch Airport in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The aircraft then resumed its ascent, climbing from 4,913 feet to 21,727 feet in 5 minutes, covering 30 nautical miles. This was followed by another level cruise, lasting 11 minutes and covering 75 nautical miles, as the aircraft flew south of the TN87 Montvale Airpark in Maryville, Tennessee. The aircraft continued its climb, reaching an altitude of 34,210 feet in 5 minutes, while covering 35 nautical miles east of Gainesville, Georgia. The aircraft then entered a level cruise, maintaining an altitude of 34,210 feet for 14 minutes as it flew overhead the 18GA Sleepy Hollow Airport in Social Circle, Georgia, covering 108 nautical miles.
The aircraft's final climb phase saw it ascend from 35,521 feet to 39,327 feet in 2 minutes, covering 11 nautical miles southeast of Rochelle, Georgia. The aircraft then began its descent, reducing its altitude from 39,334 feet to 25,439 feet in 5 minutes, while covering 38 nautical miles west of the KFZG Fitzgerald Municipal Airport in Fitzgerald, Georgia. The aircraft continued its descent, touching down on runway 23 at the KAPF Naples Municipal Airport in Florida, with a touchdown distance of 294 meters and a touchdown speed of 136 knots. The aircraft's total landing distance was 1,034 meters, with a rollout alignment slightly misaligned from the centerline.
The Cessna Longitude touched down on runway 23 at KAPF Naples Municipal Airport, completing a final approach from the north east at a heading of 224.0°. The aircraft was established at 4 nautical miles from the threshold and 1,248 feet above ground level. The approach quality was satisfactory, with a good threshold height achieved. However, the threshold speed was excessively high at 144 knots, indicating a potential for a longer landing roll.
Upon touchdown, the aircraft's speed was 136 knots, which was too fast, and the touchdown rate was good at -199 feet per minute. The touchdown distance was good at 294 meters, but the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 9.4 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 29°C and a headwind of 16 knots, contributed to the landing performance. The total landing distance was 1,034 meters, which accounted for 68% of the runway length.
The rollout phase was characterized by a slightly misaligned alignment of 12.8 meters from the centreline. Overall, the landing performance scored 89.8%, indicating a good but not exceptional execution. The excessive threshold speed and high touchdown speed were notable areas for improvement.
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