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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 72 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 61 kt, 11 kt before the 72 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 72 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 64 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 66 kt against a target of 64 kt, and touchdown followed at 29 m, well short of the 457 m aim point. Carrying extra speed over the threshold usually floats the flare and carries the touchdown point short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, target 64 kt at the threshold.
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 61 kt, 11 kt below the 72 kt target, and lifted off at 68 kt 1.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 99 kt, 8 kt under its 107 kt target.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 814 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 436 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,370 fpm on average to 814 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 899 m runway.
Rolled from 160 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.1 m left. Airborne 32 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.3 nm, about 130 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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.
High from 2.1 nm, where the final began, to 1.7 nm (up to 700 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 938 m left of the centreline at 2.1 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 2.1 nm, where the final began, to 1.5 nm (up to +50 kt), then inside the band to 1.3 nm, then fast to 1.1 nm (up to +22 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
The aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° left 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.
From 56 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 7 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 1,146 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 34 ft, 237 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 29 m before the threshold.
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 1,146 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.
Plan view — the full 1,146 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
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.
Touched down 29 m short of the threshold. The 281 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Kodiak 100 taxied to runway 02 at LSPG Kägiswil Airfield and commenced the departure roll, achieving liftoff after a takeoff distance of 305 m, which represents 34 % of the runway, at a speed of 68 kt.
Climb began overhead the departure aerodrome, rising from 2 375 ft asl to 7 272 ft asl, an increase of 4 897 ft in 2 minutes while covering 5 nm.
Cruise level was established overhead Sachseln, lasting 5 minutes and encompassing 15 nm of flight.
Descent started 1 mile north-east of Ringgenberg, descending from 7 283 ft asl to 6 689 ft asl, a loss of 595 ft in 2 minutes over 5 nm.
A second cruise segment commenced 1 mile south of Beatenberg, persisting for 5 minutes and covering 16 nm.
The next descent began 2 miles north-east of Boltigen, dropping from 5 740 ft asl to 5 139 ft asl, a decrease of 601 ft in 2 minutes across 5 nm.
A brief cruise followed 1 mile north of Zweisimmen, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 5 nm.
Subsequent descent started 3 miles south-west of Zweisimmen, falling from 5 319 ft asl to 3 971 ft asl, a reduction of 1 348 ft in 3 minutes while covering 7 nm.
Final approach to runway 08 at LSGK Saanen Airfield was flown from the west on a heading of 105.0° at 1 nm and 660 ft agl, with local conditions of 22 °C temperature and calm wind.
Touchdown occurred before the threshold at a speed of 51 kt; the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 204 fpm and the touchdown point was 3.6 m off the centreline.
Runway rollout measured 116 m, representing 10 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was very good.
Overall, the flight covered 60 nm in 23 minutes and consumed 57 kg of fuel.
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