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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 137 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 143 kt against a target of 137 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 137 kt at the threshold.
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 144 kt, 4 kt below the 148 kt target, and lifted off at 153 kt 3.8 s later, the nose coming up at 1.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 158 kt, 8 kt under its 166 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 926 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,241 ft of runway left; gear up at 33 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,870 fpm on average to 926 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 8,154 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 9 ft at the widest, and lifted off 9 ft left. Airborne 68 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 2.7 nm, then not again: low from 2.7 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 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 2.7 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 310 ft under).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 16× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 80 ft off the centreline.
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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +7 kt on the approach speed of 137 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 tracked the target profile closely. Crossing the threshold 7 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 2,336 ft past the threshold. The flare cannot burn off excess energy - fix the approach speed and the float goes with it.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 359° at 2 kt · 0 kt head · 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.
From 141 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 55 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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 6,935 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 38 ft, 12 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 9 ft. Touched down 2,336 ft in, 1,336 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 6,935 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 240 fpm at the flare to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.7° 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 6,935 ft of the 10,274 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7 ft right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 13 ft 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 2,336 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from the Eastern Iowa Airport, KCID, the CRJ900 began its journey on runway 27, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 153 kt after a takeoff distance of 5,573 ft, which covered 68% of the available runway. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 76 °F, with a gentle headwind of 4 kt and a crosswind of 1 kt.
As the aircraft climbed to its initial cruising altitude, it traversed a significant vertical distance of 28,044 ft in just 13 minutes, covering 67 nm. The enroute climb phase was punctuated by several level cruise segments, with the aircraft maintaining a steady altitude and airspeed over various points in the United States, including Prairie City, Ordway, Olney Springs, and Pueblo Pintado. The final level cruise segment began 14 miles north of E90 Pueblo Pintado Pueblo Pintado, lasting 14 minutes and covering 117 nm.
As the CRJ900 approached its destination, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, KPHX, it initiated a descent from 33,999 ft asl to 2,136 ft asl, a decrease of 29,491 ft in 19 minutes, covering 104 nm. The final approach to runway 25R was executed from the east, with the aircraft touching down 984 ft beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 134 kt. The total landing distance of 6,683 ft was 65% of the available runway, and the runway rollout alignment was very good. After a taxiing time of 4 minutes, the aircraft arrived at the parking area, having completed a total flight distance of 1,095 nm and consuming 12,243 lbs of fuel in 167 minutes.
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