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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 61 kt, 11 kt below the 72 kt target, and lifted off at 67 kt 1.1 s later, the nose coming up at 3.4° a second.
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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 260 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 330 m of runway left; then climbing at 990 fpm on average to 260 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.
Plan view the roll down the 636 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 1.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.3 m left. Airborne 34 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 210 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.
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 1,867 m right of the centreline at 1.5 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +39 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 mostly held the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 3.5° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 109 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 269° at 2 kt · 2 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 57 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 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 639 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 18 ft. Touched down 109 m in, 195 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 639 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 560 fpm at the flare to 330 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.5° 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 full 639 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.9 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.7 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 109 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 328 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 taxied from the parking area to the runway in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The aircraft departed from runway 10 at TFFJ Saint Barthélemy - Rémy de Haenen Airport. The takeoff roll required 230 m, representing 36 % of the runway, and liftoff was achieved at 68 kt. Ambient temperature was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270 °, no crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind component.
Climb commenced overhead the airport, ascending from 305 ft asl to 1,092 ft asl, a gain of 786 ft in 1 minute while covering 2 nm.
Level cruise began 2 miles north of the airport and continued for 2 minutes, during which 4 nm were flown.
Descent started 3 miles north-east of the airport, descending from 973 ft asl to 77 ft asl, a loss of 897 ft in 2 minutes and covering 4 nm.
Final approach to runway 28 was executed from the east, on a heading of 269.0 ° at 0 nm and 29 ft agl.
Touchdown on runway 28 occurred with a distance of 108 m and a speed of 58 kt, slightly above the target. The vertical speed at touchdown was minus 180 fpm and the touchdown point was offset 4.9 m from the centreline. Threshold speed was 68 kt and runway length is 639 m.
The aircraft rolled out over a total landing distance of 465 m, representing 73 % of the runway, with alignment described as very good.
Overall, the flight covered 10 nm, lasted 7 minutes, and consumed 20 kg of fuel.
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