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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Smoothly ease back pressure on the yoke during the climb, holding g force steady near 1.6 g instead of snatching the pitch.
What happened: You pulled 1.6 g of g force through Climb 2, and that kind of abrupt pitch handling usually carries into the next climb, where it spiked again to 1.3 g in Climb 3.
Watch for: G-meter: smooth, steady g force through the climb.
Arrival
Add power on short final to hold speed at 123 kt, correcting the slow threshold speed before it carries through to the flare.
What happened: Threshold speed was slow at 109 kt against 123 kt, and touchdown followed short of the aim point at 96 m. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries the touchdown short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 123 kt on short final.
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 · 21 stages, 19 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 185 kt, 15 kt above the 170 kt target, and lifted off at 205 kt 2.1 s later, the nose coming up at 1.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 272 kt, 15 kt under its 287 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 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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 774 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,861 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,660 fpm on average to 774 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 3,353 m runway.
Rolled from 93 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 11 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.7 m right, in 7 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 30 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 32 kt above the approach speed of 126 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.6 to 1.1 nm, then not again: fast from 1.1 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 450 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 207 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 2.6 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.0 nm (up to +62 kt), then inside the band to 1.1 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +37 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 aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
18 kt across from the right, which takes about 9° of crab to hold the centreline at 109 kt. Touched down with the nose 11° left of the track, away from the wind, 11° of bank.
Wind 009° at 24 kt · 15 kt head · 18 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 92 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.23 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.
Began the flare high, at 119 ft, 253 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 77 ft, 27 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 96 m before the threshold.
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.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,124 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
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.
Touched down 96 m short of the threshold. The 2.83 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
A Boeing F/A-18E departed from runway 06L at CYUL Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, where it had been taxiing for 13 minutes and covering 6 nautical miles. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 205 knots, utilizing 31% of the runway's length, which measured 1,031 meters. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 16 knots at a direction of 70 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 7 knots and a headwind of 14 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to its initial cruising altitude, it traversed a distance of 30 nautical miles in just 3 minutes, ascending from 749 feet above sea level to 35,037 feet. The enroute level cruise phase that followed lasted 49 minutes, covering a significant distance of 756 nautical miles. The aircraft then underwent a series of climbs and descents, including a notable descent from 36,900 feet to 1,189 feet in just 3 minutes, covering 31 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 34 at CYYT St. John's International Airport was initiated from the southeast, with the aircraft touching down before the threshold at a speed of 109 knots. The touchdown rate was heavy, at -2,345 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline.
The total landing distance was 411 meters, accounting for 19% of the runway's length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, covering less than 1 nautical mile in 6 minutes. The total flight distance was 891 nautical miles, completed in 73 minutes, with no fuel consumption reported. The flight's performance was notable for its efficient use of runway length and its ability to navigate through varying weather conditions, including a temperature drop from 10 degrees Celsius to -4 degrees Celsius and a change in wind direction from 70 degrees to 360 degrees.
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