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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Apply small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft tracked 4.5 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and flights with this pattern usually carry extra bank, around 2.2°, into the first climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level, tracking the runway centreline
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 75 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 86 kt, 11 kt above the 75 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 75 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
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.
Lifted off at 67 kt with 5.3° 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 259 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 435 m of runway left; then climbing at 270 fpm on average to 259 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,562 m runway.
Rolled from 238 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.5 m left, in 12 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 28 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up and no landing flap set.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, gear up until 2.2 nm and no landing flap until 1.7 nm.
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 60 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 9× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 42 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +45 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.
wheel landing
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Great landing flare
7 kt across from the left, which takes about 6° of crab to hold the centreline at 67 kt. Touched down with the nose 7° into wind, wings level.
Wind 280° at 12 kt · 10 kt head · 7 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 59 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 1,512 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 458 m in, 153 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 1,512 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 430 fpm at 26 ft to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.7° 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 1,512 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.1 m right of the centreline and drifted to 7.2 m left on the rollout, back to 1.2 m left by the end.
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 458 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.16 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Mooney Ovation M20R, then departed from runway 21 at KSEZ Sedona Airport. The takeoff distance was 210 meters, which accounted for 13% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 67 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 46 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 20 knots from a direction of 279 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 17 knots and a headwind of 12 knots. The aircraft began its enroute climb 1 mile southwest of KSEZ Sedona Airport, rising from an altitude of 5,087 feet above sea level to 10,329 feet above sea level, an increase of 5,242 feet in 10 minutes, covering a distance of 20 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 4 miles west of Jerome, Arizona, and lasted for 65 minutes, covering a distance of 166 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent 12 miles southeast of CN64 Desert Center, descending from 9,901 feet above sea level to 3,789 feet above sea level, a decrease of 6,112 feet in 12 minutes, covering a distance of 32 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise resumed 6 miles north of 63CA Desert Air Sky Ranch Airport, lasting for 3 minutes and covering 9 nautical miles.
The final descent started 5 miles east of Oasis, California, and the aircraft descended from 3,790 feet above sea level to 1,127 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,663 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 30 at KTRM Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport from the southeast, heading 315.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,231 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 30 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 457 meters and a touchdown speed of 67 knots. The touchdown rate was excellent at -75 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were the same as at the time of departure, with a temperature of 46 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 20 knots from a direction of 279 degrees.
The total landing distance was 974 meters, accounting for 64% of the runway. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.9 meters from the centerline. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 240 nautical miles, taking 105 minutes, and the aircraft used 52 kilograms of fuel.
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