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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 2° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 6.5° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 93 kt with 5.5° 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 903 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft at the runway end; then climbing at 1,670 fpm on average to 903 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 549 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 5.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.3 m left. Airborne 74 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Not every check held at once from 0.7 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 4.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 860 ft below 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: 4.5° here, which is about 470 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 80 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 474 m right of the centreline, then inside it from 2.9 to 0.7 nm, then drifted 23 m right between 0.7 and 0.2 nm, then inside the band from 0.2 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.1 nm (up to +45 kt), then inside the band to 2.0 nm, then fast to 1.5 nm (up to +42 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 011° at 10 kt · 10 kt tail · 2 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 19 ft, 31 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 232 m in, 73 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 430 fpm at 18 ft to 250 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.7° 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 1,651 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3 m right 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 232 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.28 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 18 at LFHN Bellegarde-Vouvray Airfield, where the Beechcraft Baron G58 took off with a takeoff distance of 452 meters, which accounted for 82% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 93 knots.
As the aircraft climbed, it started its enroute climb overhead Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, located in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of France. The climb from 2,576 feet above sea level to 4,974 feet above sea level, an increase of 2,398 feet, was achieved in just 2 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started overhead Corbonod and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. The cruise phase was a brief but stable period in the flight.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its enroute descent overhead Serrieres-en-Chautagne. The descent from 5,452 feet above sea level to 1,850 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,602 feet, was achieved in 4 minutes, covering a distance of 11 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 18 at LFLB Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport was made from the north, heading 166.0 degrees at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,077 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 18 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 230 meters, which was good. The touchdown speed of 64 knots was also within acceptable limits, and the touchdown rate of -200 feet per minute was good. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.3 meters from the centerline.
The total landing distance was 1,115 meters, which accounted for 68% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned by 11.7 meters from the centerline. Despite these minor deviations, the landing was considered good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area from the runway in less than 1 minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 29 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 12 minutes. The aircraft used 10 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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