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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 64 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 107 kt with 1.4° 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 852 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,611 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,570 fpm on average to 852 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 10,011 ft runway.
Rolled from 3,364 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 64 ft at the widest, and lifted off 40 ft left, in 8 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 53 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 2.9 nm, then not again: fast from 2.9 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 440 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, 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 22× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 50 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 46 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 27 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 2.9 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +43 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
Poor landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 259° at 15 kt · 15 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.
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 2,601 ft in, 1,601 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 5,000 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 230 fpm at 22 ft to 100 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 5,000 ft of the 7,970 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 ft left of the centreline, and stayed within 8 ft of it down 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.
Touched down 2,601 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.07 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 15 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Cockspur C510, then departed from runway 35R at KAPA Centennial Airport. The takeoff distance was 1,985 feet, which is 20% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 108 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 45°F and winds of 18 knots at 329°. This resulted in a crosswind of 8 knots and a headwind of 16 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile northeast of Inverness, Colorado. The climb took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 29 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from 6,738 feet above sea level to 15,525 feet above sea level, an increase of 8,787 feet.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, starting 2 miles east of Idaho Springs, Colorado. This cruise lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 15 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its first descent, starting 4 miles south of Winter Park, Colorado. The descent took 3 minutes and covered a distance of 17 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from 15,716 feet above sea level to 13,700 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,016 feet.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting 9 miles south of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado. This cruise lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its second descent, starting 6 miles southeast of Kremmling, Colorado. The descent took 2 minutes and covered a distance of 7 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from 13,709 feet above sea level to 12,797 feet above sea level, a decrease of 912 feet.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting 8 miles south of Kremmling, Colorado. This cruise lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 16 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its third descent, starting 2 miles north of Edwards, Colorado. The descent took 4 minutes and covered a distance of 11 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from 12,393 feet above sea level to 8,248 feet above sea level, a decrease of 4,145 feet.
The final approach to runway 25 at KEGE Eagle County Regional Airport was made from the east, heading 262.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,772 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 25, which has a length of 7,970 feet. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was well above the target at 112 knots.
The touchdown point was 1,180 feet beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 97 knots, which was fast. However, the touchdown rate was smooth at -127 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 36°F and winds of 15 knots at 260°, resulting in a crosswind of 0 knots and a headwind of 15 knots.
The total landing distance was 4,046 feet, which is 51% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was perfect. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 3 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 110 nautical miles, and the flight took 36 minutes, using 612 pounds of fuel.
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