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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 16° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 29° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Add power on final to keep the approach speed at 87 kt rather than letting it decay before the threshold.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 74 kt, 13 kt below the target, and touchdown followed with a firm, high sink rate arrival. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries through to a firmer touchdown as the flare runs out of energy.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 87 kt at the threshold.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early
The nose came up at 77 kt, 7 kt before the 84 kt rotate speed.
The rotate speed is set for the weight and the flap, and the nose should not start up before it. Lifting it early brings the aircraft to its liftoff attitude with less speed in hand, and on a long fuselage that is the tail-strike case. Keep the hands still until the speed is there, then make one smooth, continuous pull.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 840 m runway.
Rolled from 41 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.1 m left. Airborne 58 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 479 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 48 m of runway left; gear up at 25 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 640 fpm on average to 479 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
One stabilised approach gate: five 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.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: sinking too fast until 0.9 nm, banked until 0.8 nm, low until 0.5 nm, slow 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.
On the glideslope from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to 0.9 nm, then low to 0.5 nm (up to 260 ft under), 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. 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 all the way from 1.1 nm, never more than 148 m off the centreline.
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 44 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −13 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
The flare held the target profile well
The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 3.9° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 293 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 38 ft, 23 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 33 ft, 17 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 293 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 490 fpm at the flare to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.5° on the way down. Into the flare at 74 kt, 13 kt under the 87 kt approach speed, and 67 kt at touchdown.
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 2,155 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.4 m left of the centreline and drifted to 11 m left on the rollout, back to 0.9 m left by the end. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 097° at 5 kt · 4 kt tail · 2 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 293 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 71 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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.
The rest of the report
The Pilatus PC-12 taxied from the parking area to runway 34 at UBZA Zabrat Airport in 13 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 34 with a take-off distance of 552 m, which was 66 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 77 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 10 °C.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 41 seconds, averaging 748 fpm and reaching 138 kt at the top of the climb.
The aircraft then levelled at 600 ft asl for 8 minutes, covering 29 nm, beginning 1 mile south-west of Mastaga.
Climb continued from 496 ft asl to 12 003 ft asl in 11 minutes, covering 39 nm, starting 3 miles south of Korgoz, with a brief level-off at 2 500 ft asl.
Cruise was maintained at 12 000 ft asl for 22 minutes, covering 83 nm, beginning 5 miles west of Sirvan.
Descent began from 11 534 ft asl to 2 486 ft asl in 15 minutes, covering 41 nm, starting 2 miles north-west of Fizuli, with a brief level-off at 6 000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 23 at UB13 Khojaly Airport started with a descent from 699 ft agl to 34 ft agl in 67 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope and speed. Configuration on final was gear down at 891 ft agl, 86 kt; final flap position 3 at 747 ft agl, 91 kt.
Landing was made on runway 23, runway length 2 155 m, with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly below target at 74 kt. Flare was described as great, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 293 m down the runway at 67 kt, with a fair rate of -225 fpm and very good alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 832 m, 39 % of the runway. Runway rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 10.7 m.
Local weather at landing was temperature 4 °C, wind 3 kt from 090°, crosswind 1 kt, tailwind 2 kt.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 198 nm in 64 minutes and used 246 kg of fuel.
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