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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 9°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Ease the pitch and add power earlier on final to arrest the descent rate before reaching the stabilisation gate.
What happened: On the approach, the aircraft's sink rate exceeded the stabilised gate limit, tripping a sink-rate fault at the gate check.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, stabilised descent rate approaching the gate
See Arrival Approach
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 75 kt with 3.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 111 kt, 16 kt over its 95 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 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 650 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,511 m of runway left; gear up at 25 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 980 fpm on average to 650 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 3,227 m runway.
Rolled from 209 m in, drifted 4.7 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 14 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm, then not again: slow from 0.8 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 1.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 100 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. 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm, then drifted 51 m right between 0.8 and 0.3 nm, then inside the band 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 41 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −12 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.6 points, for touching down 6.5° above the aircraft's ground attitude.
5 kt across from the left, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 58 kt. Touched down with the nose 6° into wind, wings level.
Wind 119° at 11 kt · 9 kt head · 5 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 49 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 36 s, an average deceleration of 0.03 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 32 ft, 7 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 325 m in, close to 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 1,524 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 420 fpm at the flare to 30 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 6.2° 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 1,524 m of the 3,289 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8.8 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 9 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.
The 325 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Heydar Aliyev International Airport (UBBB) in Baku, Azerbaijan, the aircraft began its journey on runway 35. With a takeoff distance of 570 meters, which accounted for 17% of the runway, the aircraft lifted off at a speed of 76 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 10 knots from a direction of 340 degrees, resulting in a 3-knot crosswind and a 10-knot headwind.
As the aircraft climbed out of Baku, it transitioned into a series of enroute climbs and level cruises. The first enroute climb, which started overhead the airport, saw the aircraft ascend from 673 feet above sea level to 1,048 feet, an increase of 375 feet in just 1 minute and covering 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise, lasting 8 minutes and covering 20 nautical miles, before initiating another climb 8 miles south east of Badamdar. This climb saw the aircraft ascend from 1,023 feet to 2,010 feet, an increase of 987 feet in 2 minutes and covering 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a prolonged level cruise, lasting 27 minutes and covering 70 nautical miles.
As the aircraft began its descent 12 miles south west of Sovetabad, it descended from 1,993 feet to 593 feet, a decrease of 1,400 feet in 2 minutes and covering 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a final level cruise, lasting 10 minutes and covering 22 nautical miles, before initiating its final approach to runway 15 at Lenkoran (UB10). The landing was successful, with a touchdown distance of 332 meters and a touchdown speed of 58 knots. The total landing distance was 1,002 meters, accounting for 30% of the runway. The aircraft used a total of 66 kilograms of fuel for the 126-nautical-mile flight, which lasted 53 minutes.
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