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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Maintain the centreline
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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The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 132 kt with 7.7° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 277 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 2,311 ft of runway left; then climbing at 440 fpm on average to 277 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 8,131 ft runway.
Rolled from 1,173 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 9 ft at the widest, and lifted off 9 ft right. Airborne 60 % 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 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 90 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 6× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.9 nm, then drifted 220 ft left between 1.9 and 1.4 nm, then inside the band from 1.4 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 137 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 200° at 4 kt · 0 kt head · 4 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 5,909 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 2,189 ft in, 1,189 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 5,909 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 530 fpm at 38 ft to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.8° 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 5,909 ft of the 11,075 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 12 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 19 ft left 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 2,189 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.25 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The B-2 Spirit took off from Runway 03 at ULLP Pushkin Airport with a takeoff distance of 3,213 ft, which was 40% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 132 knots. The local weather at departure was 40°F, with a wind speed of 6 knots coming from 203°, resulting in a 1 knot crosswind and a 6 knot tailwind.
During the enroute climb, the aircraft started climbing from 566 ft above sea level to 2,717 ft above sea level over Pushkin (Sankt-Peterburg, Russia). The climb covered 8 nm and took 3 minutes, with an increase in altitude of 2,151 ft.
The enroute descent began 1 mile east of Kolpino (Sankt-Peterburg, Russia), descending from 2,723 ft above sea level to 1,854 ft above sea level. The descent covered 6 nm and took 2 minutes, with a decrease in altitude of 868 ft.
The B-2 Spirit landed on Runway 28R at ULLI Pulkovo Airport, with a runway length of 11,075 ft. The height at threshold was 42 ft above ground level, and the speed at threshold was 150 knots. The touchdown occurred 2,193 ft from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 137 knots and a Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) reading of -146 ft/min. The local weather at landing was 41°F, with a wind speed of 4 knots coming from 199°, resulting in a 4 knot crosswind and no headwind.
The total landing distance was 5,646 ft, which was 51% of the runway length. Taxiing to the parking area from the runway took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the total flight distance covered was 22 nm, taking 18 minutes and consuming 2,848 lbs of fuel.
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