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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 2.5°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
In the flare, apply one smooth, continuous backpressure increase on the elevator and hold it, rather than reversing the stick to chase the runway.
What happened: The flare was pumped, with pitch reversing direction several times instead of being held as one smooth input, and a pumped flare like this usually carries the touchdown long, landing 298 m beyond the 457 m aim point.
Watch for: Touchdown point: aim for 457 m from the threshold.
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 99 kt, 13 kt above the 86 kt target, and lifted off at 101 kt 0.6 s later, the nose coming up at 5.0° 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 295 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,279 m of runway left; then climbing at 850 fpm on average to 295 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 2,505 m runway.
Rolled from 267 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.8 m right. Airborne 38 % 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: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.4 nm, about 420 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 3.5 nm, then drifted 199 m right between 3.5 and 2.4 nm, then inside the band from 2.4 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.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +5 kt and +13 kt on the approach speed of 84 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 wandered off the target profile. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 5 times on the way down. Touchdown was 755 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 6° right of the track, wings level.
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 72 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 15 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft. Touched down 755 m in, 450 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 240 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at 13 ft, then back up to 230 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.4° 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 2,369 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.1 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.3 m 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.
Touched down 755 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 232 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 21L at SVMC La Chinita International Airport, a movement that lasted 6 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 21L the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 963 m, representing 38 % of the runway, and lifted off at 102 kt. Ambient conditions were 32 °C with wind 0 kt at 90 °, and no cross- or head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead SVMC La Chinita International Airport, rising from 533 ft asl to 7 498 ft asl, an altitude gain of 6 965 ft achieved in 8 minutes while covering 31 nm.
The first cruise segment began 10 miles north-east of Cabimas and continued for 30 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 126 nm at level flight.
Descent started 4 miles north-east of Barquisimeto, descending from 7 510 ft asl to 5 819 ft asl, a loss of 1 692 ft completed in 2 minutes over a distance of 7 nm.
A second cruise phase was initiated 8 miles north-west of Yaritagua, lasting 2 minutes and covering 5 nm.
The subsequent descent began 5 miles north of Yaritagua, dropping from 5 810 ft asl to 3 386 ft asl, a decrease of 2 424 ft accomplished in 4 minutes across 12 nm.
Final approach to runway 27 at SVBM Barquisimeto International Airport was conducted from the east, with the aircraft aligned on a heading of 265.0 ° at 4 nm and 1 335 ft agl.
The aircraft touched down on runway 27, whose length is 2 369 m, with a threshold speed of 89 kt and Good threshold height. Touchdown occurred 319 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 66 kt, a vertical rate of minus 117 fpm, and a lateral offset of 4.3 m from the centreline. Local weather was 31 °C with wind 0 kt from 360 °.
Total landing distance measured 1 116 m, equivalent to 47 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a distance of 188 nm, required 54 of flight time, and consumed 164 kg of fuel.
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