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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Add power on short final to hold 91 kt at the threshold rather than letting speed decay.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 80 kt against a target of 91 kt, below reference speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, hold 91 kt down to the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 94 kt against the 95 kt rotate speed, the nose rising at 3.3° a second, then held 13.4° from 35 ft, within 6.0° top to bottom.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,852 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 5.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.3 m right. Airborne 7 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 960 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,396 m of runway left; gear up at 210 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,720 fpm on average to 960 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.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then not again: slow from 0.3 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 350 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 12× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 31 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 46 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 27 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −11 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
Excellent landing flare
It lost 1.3 points, for the nose going up and down 2 times.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 27 ft, 245 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 13 ft, 37 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 380 m in, 75 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 290 fpm at the flare to 70 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.9° on the way down. Into the flare at 84 kt, 7 kt under the 91 kt approach speed, and 70 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 1,765 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 22 m left on the rollout. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 183° at 3 kt · 1 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 380 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 76 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 42 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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 Beechcraft Duke taxied from the parking area to runway 12 at TFFR Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet International Airport, a taxi of 18 minutes covering 9 nm.
Take-off was on runway 12. The aircraft used 228 m of runway (8 % of runway) and rotated at 89 kt. Local weather was 7 °C with wind 3 kt from 183°, a 3 kt crosswind and no headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 31 seconds, averaging 1,592 fpm and reaching 109 kt at the top. The climb continued from 1,006 ft asl to 15,819 ft asl in 12 minutes, covering 33 nm, with a brief level-off at 11,000 ft asl.
The aircraft level-flew at 16,000 ft asl for 15 minutes, covering 60 nm, beginning 3 mi south-west of Grand-Bourg.
Descent from 15,987 ft asl to 2,931 ft asl took 15 minutes and covered 50 nm, starting overhead Basse-Pointe. A further level segment at 2,000 ft asl lasted 6 minutes, covering 17 nm, beginning 13 mi west of Castries.
Final approach to runway 09 at TLPC George F. L. Charles Airport began at 1,317 ft agl and descended to 28 ft agl in 135 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. The aircraft was in final flap position 2 at 401 ft agl with a speed of 109 kt.
Landing on runway 09 used a threshold speed of 80 kt, a little below target. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 380 m down the runway at 70 kt with a rate of -71 fpm; alignment was perfect and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 1,304 m, 74 % of the 1,765 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was 6 °C with wind 3 kt from 183°, a 3 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
After landing, the Duke taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 174 nm in 63 minutes and consumed 75 kg of fuel.
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