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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 2.6°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Keep increasing back pressure smoothly after the sink arrests at 7.7 ft, holding that attitude firmly all the way to touchdown.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 7.7 ft, but 166 fpm of sink came back before touchdown, and sink returning like this usually carries through into a bounce at touchdown.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: steady, continuously decreasing sink held through the flare and into touchdown.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 117 kt with 1.9° 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 1,067 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,975 m of runway left; then climbing at 790 fpm on average to 1,067 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 2,856 m runway.
Rolled from 124 m in, drifted 2.3 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 22 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 25 kt above the approach speed of 98 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 15 kt above the approach speed of 98 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, right of the centreline from 0.3 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 60 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: 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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 13 m right of it from 0.3 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 25 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +71 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
Very poor landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 225° at 5 kt · 5 kt tail · 1 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 1,539 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 51 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,032 m in, 727 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 1,539 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 670 fpm at 51 ft to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° 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 first 1,539 m of the 2,459 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.2 m right at the widest.
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 1,032 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.20 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took 9 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Beechcraft King Air 350, then departed from runway 24 at SEMT Eloy Alfaro International Airport. The takeoff distance was 659 meters, which accounted for 23% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 118 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 28 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 4 knots at 230 degrees. The crosswind was negligible, but there was a headwind of 4 knots. The enroute climb started shortly after takeoff, 1 mile southwest of Manta, and continued to an altitude of 16,942 feet above sea level. This climb covered a distance of 28 nautical miles and took 8 minutes, with an increase in altitude of 15,790 feet.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 8 nautical miles. This phase started 2 miles southwest of Sucre. The enroute descent began 7 miles northeast of Pajan and lasted for 15 minutes, covering a distance of 64 nautical miles. The aircraft descended from 17,005 feet above sea level to 1,219 feet above sea level, a decrease of 15,787 feet.
The final approach to runway 03 at SEGU José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport was made from the southwest, with a heading of 30.0 degrees at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,190 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 03, which had a length of 2,459 meters. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was excessively high at 133 knots.
The touchdown point was 615 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 113 knots, which was considered fast. However, the touchdown rate was good at -167 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the local weather conditions were similar to those encountered during takeoff, with a temperature of 28 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 5 knots at 225 degrees.
The crosswind was minimal, but there was a tailwind of 5 knots. The total landing distance was 1,458 meters, which accounted for 59% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, which took 2 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 114 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 35 minutes. The aircraft used 210 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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