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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Reduce power earlier on approach to be at 118 kt by the stabilisation gate, not just by the threshold.
What happened: The approach was too fast at the stabilisation gate, crossing the threshold at 108 kt against a VREF of 118 kt.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 118 kt at the stabilisation gate.
See Arrival Approach
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 138 kt with 8.6° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 158 kt target, at 161 kt on average.
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 928 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,874 m of runway left; gear up at 106 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,220 fpm on average to 928 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,329 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 1.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 36 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 30 kt above the approach speed of 118 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 118 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.6 to 0.4 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 0.4 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 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 3.3 nm, then high to 2.8 nm (up to 410 ft over), 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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then 18 m right of it from 0.4 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 30 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 1.6 nm (up to +63 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Touchdown
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.7 points, for touching down 6.7° above the aircraft's ground attitude.
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 102 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 345° at 5 kt · 2 kt head · 4 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 101 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 56 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 44 ft, 89 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 269 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 810 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.4° 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 1,524 m of the 3,100 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.5 m of it down the rollout.
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 269 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Brussels Airport, the RJ85 aircraft began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took approximately 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. Upon reaching runway 25R, the aircraft initiated its departure roll, accelerating down the 1,220-meter stretch of the 3,300-meter runway, which accounted for 37% of its length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 138 knots, overcoming the negligible headwind of 0 knots and a crosswind of 5 knots from a direction of 329 degrees.
As the aircraft climbed to cruising altitude, it passed over the town of Diegem in Flanders, Belgium, and continued its ascent to 28,574 feet above sea level, a gain of 27,473 feet in 22 minutes, covering a distance of 136 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise phase began over Mitry-Mory in the Ile-de-France region of France, lasting 27 minutes and covering 199 nautical miles. The aircraft then commenced its descent, starting 1 mile northwest of Saint-Yrieix-sous-Aixe in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, and descended to 1,836 feet above sea level, a decrease of 26,751 feet in 22 minutes, covering 121 nautical miles.
Upon reaching the Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport, the aircraft initiated its final approach to runway 05 from the southwest, heading 44.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,666 feet above ground level. The aircraft landed on the 3,100-meter runway, with a touchdown distance of 267 meters, slightly below the target threshold speed of 108 knots. The touchdown speed of 102 knots and the touchdown rate of -156 feet per minute were both within acceptable limits. The aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 465 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 84 minutes and a fuel consumption of 2,893 kilograms.
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