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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Keep the wings level on final
See Arrival Final 3
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 · 23 stages, 16 in the score
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 92 kt with 6.8° 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 301 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 254 m of runway left; then climbing at 940 fpm on average to 301 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 1,217 m runway.
Rolled from 89 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 9 m at the widest, and lifted off 8.4 m right. Airborne 41 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to 2.8 nm (up to 3,840 ft over), then back on it to 1.7 nm, then high to 1.2 nm (up to 410 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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.
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.
Joined 712 m right of the centreline at 3.8 nm, then inside the band from 2.5 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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +263 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
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 107° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 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 97 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.38 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 1,217 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 528 m in, 223 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 1,217 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.
From 25 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 230 fpm before coming down at 250 fpm to touch. The nose went down 2.5° 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 full 1,217 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.4 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7 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.
Touched down 528 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 34 at O26 Lone Pine, where the aircraft, an Aero L-39 Albatros, took off with a takeoff distance of 437 meters, which was 36% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 92 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from 270 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 2 knots.
As the aircraft climbed, it started its enroute climb overhead Lone Pine, California, and ascended from 4,116 feet above sea level to 14,826 feet above sea level, an increase of 10,710 feet in just 4 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent 6 miles southeast of O26 Lone Pine, descending from 14,822 feet above sea level to 3,016 feet above sea level, a decrease of 11,806 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 26 nautical miles.
The flight continued with multiple enroute climbs and descents, with the aircraft climbing from 2,797 feet above sea level to 4,830 feet above sea level in 2 minutes, covering 9 nautical miles, and then descending from 4,944 feet above sea level to 1,967 feet above sea level in 2 minutes, covering 6 nautical miles. The aircraft also climbed from 2,009 feet above sea level to 6,822 feet above sea level in 3 minutes, covering 16 nautical miles.
After a brief level cruise, the aircraft began its final descent, descending from 7,172 feet above sea level to 4,622 feet above sea level in 3 minutes, covering 7 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 34 at O26 Lone Pine was made from the south, with the aircraft heading 357.0 degrees at 2 nautical miles and 923 feet above ground level.
However, the aircraft went around at 1,517 feet above ground level, and eventually landed on runway 34, which had a length of 1,217 meters. The touchdown point was 100 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 91 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was fair at -247 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.5 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from 107 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 2 knots and a tailwind of 1 knot. The total landing distance was 750 meters, which was 62% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good, and the total flight distance was 89 nautical miles, taking 25 minutes and using 154 kilograms of fuel.
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