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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 3.9°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 16 stages, 14 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 66 kt with 4.9° 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 888 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 504 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,120 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 900 m runway.
Rolled from 44 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 29 % 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 seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: no landing flap until 3.0 nm, fast from 2.3 nm and left of the centreline from 1.4 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 500 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 352 m right of the centreline, then inside it from 2.3 to 1.4 nm, then 55 m left of it from 1.4 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 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.6 nm (up to +70 kt), then inside the band to 2.3 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +33 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
Excellent landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 260° at 5 kt · 5 kt head · 0 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 63 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 483 m in, 178 m past 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 400 fpm at 24 ft to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° 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 2,186 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2 m right of the centreline and drifted to 5.3 m right 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 483 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.13 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 31 at LELL Sabadell Airfield, where the Pilatus PC-6 aircraft took off with a takeoff distance of 231 meters, which accounted for 26% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 66 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 3 knots from a direction of 280 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 3 knots.
As the aircraft climbed, it started its enroute climb overhead Sant Quirze del Valles in Catalonia, Spain. The climb was steep, with the aircraft rising from an altitude of 1,366 feet above sea level to 3,794 feet above sea level, an increase of 2,428 feet in just 3 minutes. This climb also covered a distance of 7 nautical miles. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started overhead Palleja and lasted for 14 minutes. During this phase, the aircraft covered a distance of 31 nautical miles.
As the flight progressed, the aircraft began its enroute descent, which started 1 mile southwest of Salomo in Catalonia, Spain. The descent was rapid, with the aircraft dropping from an altitude of 3,794 feet above sea level to 1,974 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,820 feet in just 2 minutes. This descent also covered a distance of 5 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 25 at LERS Reus Airport was made from the northeast, with the aircraft heading 243.0 degrees at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,737 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 25 at LERS Reus Airport was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 56 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 480 meters, and the touchdown rate was smooth at -112 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the runway rollout alignment was also excellent. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 24 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 4 knots from a direction of 260 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 4 knots.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 48 nautical miles and used 73 kilograms of fuel. The aircraft performed well throughout the flight, demonstrating its capabilities and handling characteristics.
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