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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 0.4° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 1° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 112 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 423 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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: off the centreline and speed below the reference speed.
At the 500 ft gate: off the centreline and speed below the reference speed.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 6,971 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,437 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with taxiing from the parking to the runway, which took 5 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Vision Jet, then departed from runway 03 at PHLI Lihue Airport, with a takeoff distance of 1,453 feet, which accounted for 23% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 98 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it encountered local weather conditions of 82°F temperature and winds of 9 knots at 70°. The crosswind was 4 knots, and the headwind was 8 knots. After departing from Lihue Airport, the aircraft began its enroute climb, which started overhead the airport and reached an altitude of 16,111 feet above sea level. This climb, which covered a distance of 29 nautical miles, took 10 minutes and resulted in an increase of 15,043 feet in altitude.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. However, this was short-lived, as the aircraft began another climb, this time from 16,568 feet to 17,602 feet above sea level, an increase of 1,034 feet in 2 minutes and covering 6 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its enroute descent, which started 32 miles west of PHDH Kawaihapai Airfield Mokuleia. The descent from 17,596 feet to 4,613 feet above sea level, a decrease of 12,983 feet in 11 minutes, covered a distance of 46 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, this time lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nautical miles, before beginning its final descent.
The final descent started 4 miles south of Ocean Pointe and took the aircraft from 4,297 feet to 1,547 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,751 feet in 2 minutes and covering 3 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 04L at PHNL Daniel K Inouye International Airport, flying from the southwest at a heading of 56.0° and at an altitude of 1,537 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 04L was notable for several factors. The threshold height was well above the target, and the threshold speed was excessively high at 94 knots. However, the touchdown distance was good at 1,436 feet, and the touchdown speed was good at 68 knots. The touchdown rate was fair at -246 feet per minute. Unfortunately, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 38 feet from the centreline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 81°F temperature and winds of 21 knots at 70°, with a crosswind of 6 knots and a headwind of 20 knots. The total landing distance was 2,677 feet, which accounted for 38% of the runway. After landing, the aircraft experienced a slightly misaligned runway rollout alignment, being 50 feet off the centreline.
Finally, the aircraft taxied to the parking from the runway, which took 7 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 95 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 41 minutes, with no fuel consumption reported.
The Vision Jet aircraft successfully landed on runway 04L at PHNL Daniel K Inouye International Airport, but with some notable areas for improvement. The final approach was initiated from the southwest, heading 56.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,537 feet above ground level (agl). The aircraft touched down on the runway, which has a length of 6,971 feet.
However, there were some discrepancies in the landing performance. The threshold height at 80 feet agl was significantly above the target, indicating that the aircraft may have been too high during the approach. Additionally, the threshold speed was excessively high at 94 knots, which could have contributed to the high touchdown speed. The touchdown speed of 68 knots was within the acceptable range, but the touchdown rate of -246 feet per minute (fpm) was only fair, suggesting that the aircraft may have experienced a slightly rough touchdown.
The runway touchdown position was also misaligned by 38 feet from the centreline, which could have been due to a slight deviation in the approach or during the landing roll. The total landing distance of 2,677 feet was 38% of the runway length, which is within the acceptable range. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 50 feet from the centreline, indicating that the aircraft may have experienced some difficulties during the landing roll.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were favorable, with a temperature of 81°F and a wind speed of 21 knots at 70°. The crosswind component was relatively low at 6 knots, while the headwind component was 20 knots, which could have contributed to the high threshold speed and touchdown rate. Overall, while the Vision Jet aircraft successfully landed on the runway, there are areas for improvement in terms of approach and landing performance.
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