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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 2.4°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 75 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 91 kt, 16 kt above the 75 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 75 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 84 kt with 8.5° 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 359 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,640 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,340 fpm on average to 359 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 5,453 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 22 ft at the widest, and lifted off 17 ft left. Airborne 1 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 300 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3.4°, centreline more than 1° off, wings more than 10° from level and speed more than 8 kt above the approach speed of 65 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, sinking too fast until 0.7 nm, right of the centreline until 0.3 nm, low from 0.2 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 3.4° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm (up to 250 ft over), then back on it to 0.2 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 70 ft under).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft past the threshold: 3.4° here, which is about 360 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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.
Joined 1,770 ft right of the centreline at 1.1 nm, then inside the band from 0.3 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 16 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 10 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.1 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +48 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.
three-point landing
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° 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.
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 13 ft, 37 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 714 ft in, 286 ft short of the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 200 fpm at 12 ft to 20 fpm at 2 ft, then back up to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.0° 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 5,000 ft of the 8,394 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 12 ft right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 12 ft 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 714 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.20 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Horten Ho229, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KADS Addison Airport, taking 7 minutes to cover a distance of 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 16, with the aircraft lifting off after a takeoff distance of 970 feet, which was 18% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 85 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 91°F temperature and a wind speed of 7 knots at 173°. The crosswind was 2 knots, while the headwind was 7 knots. The enroute climb started overhead Addison, Texas, and took the aircraft from an altitude of 1,073 feet above sea level to 40,595 feet, an increase of 39,523 feet in just 9 minutes, covering a distance of 49 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began 4 miles northeast of the 27XA Arnett Landing Airport in Poolville, Texas, and lasted for 262 minutes, covering a distance of 841 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its enroute descent 6 miles north of the AZ50 Triangle Airpark in White Hills, Arizona, and descended from 41,430 feet to 2,158 feet in just 6 minutes, covering a distance of 36 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 01L at KLAS Harry Reid International Airport was made from the south, with the aircraft heading at 24.0° and at an altitude of 45 feet above ground level. The landing took place on the runway, which was 8,394 feet long, with a good threshold height. However, the threshold speed was too high at 91 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 716 feet, and the touchdown speed was 71 knots, which was good. The touchdown rate was excellent at -83 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 12 feet from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 105°F temperature and a wind speed of 1 knot at 356°, with a crosswind of 0 knots and a headwind of 1 knot. The total landing distance was 1,438 feet, which was 17% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good.
The flight concluded with the aircraft taxiing to the parking area from the runway, taking just 1 minute to cover a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 928 nautical miles, taking a total of 128 minutes, and the aircraft used 2,418 pounds of fuel during the flight.
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