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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Level the wings with coordinated aileron to hold bank angle near zero during the initial climb, starting from 4.6°.
What happened: Bank angle was elevated during the initial climb and excess bank usually persists into the second climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, wings level with bank angle near zero degrees.
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 85 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 106 kt against a target of 85 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 85 kt at the threshold.
A good takeoff has a defined shape. It also has a defined end. For an airliner that's thrust reduction and acceleration, commonly somewhere around 1,000 to 1,500 ft above the airfield depending on the operator, while for a light aircraft it's established at Vy with the flaps on schedule. Most simmers have no defined end to their takeoff, which is exactly why it never gets judged.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 80 kt, on the 80 kt target, and lifted off at 85 kt 1.1 s later, the nose coming up at 4.2° a second.
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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 139 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 59 m of runway left.
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 679 m runway.
Rolled from 101 m in, drifted 2 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. 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 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.1 to 1.2 nm, then not again: fast from 1.2 nm and left of the centreline from 0.7 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 40 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 9× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then 24 m left of it from 0.7 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.2 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +23 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 exactly. Crossing the threshold 21 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 791 m 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 with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 234° at 3 kt · 1 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 76 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 52 s, an average deceleration of 0.05 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.
Crossed the threshold at 48 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 18 ft. Touched down 791 m in, 486 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 1,524 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 250 fpm at the flare to 30 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.5° 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 1,524 m of the 3,893 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.7 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 2.3 m 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 791 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The B36TP Bonanza taxied to runway 30 at LOKL Lienz-Nikolsdorf Airfield and commenced the departure roll, achieving a takeoff distance of 470 m which represented 69 % of the available runway. Rotation was established at 80 kt while the local weather reported a temperature of 11 °C, wind 1 kt from 172°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
The initial climb began overhead the airfield, climbing from 2,258 ft asl to 2,848 ft asl, an increase of 590 ft in 1 minute while covering 2 nm.
A level cruise segment followed overhead Lavant, lasting 2 minutes and encompassing 4 nm of flight.
A second climb segment started over Oberlienz, ascending from 3,261 ft asl to 22,012 ft asl, a gain of 18,750 ft in 13 minutes and traversing 32 nm.
The next cruise phase originated 4 miles west of Predoi, persisting for 47 minutes and covering 131 nm.
Descent commenced 2 miles north-east of Radolfzell, descending from 21,990 ft asl to 2,161 ft asl, a loss of 19,829 ft in 29 minutes while covering 80 nm.
During the final approach to runway 15 at LFSB EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, the aircraft descended from 1,319 ft agl to 54 ft agl in 126 seconds and was scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 15 was executed with a threshold speed of 106 kt; the touchdown point occurred 355 m beyond the touchdown zone, the touchdown speed was 76 kt and the vertical speed was minus 27 fpm. The runway length is 3,893 m and the local weather at the time reported a temperature of 12 °C, wind 3 kt from 260°, a 3 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
The total landing distance recorded was 1,103 m, representing 28 % of the runway, and the runway rollout alignment was noted as perfect.
Taxi-in to the parking area required 5 minutes and covered 1 nm.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 256 nm, required 106 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 155 kg of fuel.
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