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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Hold the nose until reaching 135 kt before rotating.
What happened: Rotation began at 121 kt, 14 kt before the 135 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator approaching 135 kt.
Arrival
Add power on short final to hold speed at 103 kt, correcting the slow threshold speed before it carries through to the flare.
What happened: Threshold speed was slow at 103 kt against 103 kt, and touchdown followed short of the aim point at 19 m. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries the touchdown short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 103 kt on short final.
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.
Lifted off at 121 kt with 7.9° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 158 kt target, at 158 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 888 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 510 m of runway left; gear up at 102 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,640 fpm on average to 888 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 1,195 m runway.
Rolled from 24 m in, drifted 3.5 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 46 % 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 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.2 to 0.3 nm, then not again: low from 0.3 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 3.9 nm, where the final began, to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 60 ft under).
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 800 m left of the centreline at 3.9 nm, then inside the band from 3.3 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 26 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −6 kt and +13 kt on the approach speed of 103 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.
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.
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 97 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 150° at 8 kt · 7 kt head · 3 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 92 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 28 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 1,418 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 52 ft, 338 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 48 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 19 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 1,418 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 1,418 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 19 m short of the threshold. The 527 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The FSReborn-equipped Phenom 300E Oberon taxied from the parking area to the departure runway in nine minutes, covering approximately 1 nm before line-up.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 15 at LJPZ Portorož Airport, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 121 kt. The take-off run consumed 553 m, representing 46 % of the available runway, while ambient conditions were 30 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 209°, a 3 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt headwind.
Climb began over Secovlje (Piran, Slovenia), with the aeroplane rising from 1,011 ft asl to 41,464 ft asl - a gain of 40,453 ft - in fifteen minutes while traversing 80 nm.
The first cruise segment started one mile north-west of Adria (Veneto, Italy) and lasted sixteen minutes, during which the aircraft covered 109 nm at level flight.
Descent commenced two miles west of Bedonia (Emilia-Romagna, Italy), dropping from 41,632 ft asl to 17,994 ft asl - a loss of 23,638 ft - in thirteen minutes and spanning 82 nm.
A brief cruise followed two miles north of Triora (Liguria, Italy), lasting three minutes and covering 18 nm.
The next descent began overhead Castillon (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France), descending from 17,499 ft asl to 12,378 ft asl - a reduction of 5,121 ft - in five minutes and over 28 nm.
A short cruise segment then started twenty miles south of Bordighera (Liguria, Italy), lasting six minutes and encompassing 23 nm.
Descent resumed twenty-four miles south-east of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France), falling from 12,164 ft asl to 3,084 ft asl - a decrease of 9,080 ft - in ten minutes while covering 39 nm.
The aircraft entered another cruise phase seventeen miles south-east of Theoule-sur-Mer (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France), lasting two minutes and covering six nautical miles.
A subsequent descent began thirteen miles south-east of Theoule-sur-Mer, dropping from 3,012 ft asl to 2,068 ft asl - a loss of 944 ft - in two minutes and spanning five nm.
A further cruise segment started nine miles south of Theoule-sur-Mer, lasting five minutes and covering fourteen nautical miles.
The final descent was overhead Mougins (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France), reducing altitude from 2,354 ft asl to 903 ft asl - a decrease of 1,451 ft - in two minutes and over four nautical miles.
The aircraft established the final approach to runway 17 at LFMD Cannes-Mandelieu Airport from the north, tracking a heading of 172.0° at three nautical miles and 884 ft agl.
Touchdown occurred before the runway threshold at a speed of 97 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 578 fpm. The landing distance measured 803 m, representing 57 % of the runway, and alignment on touchdown and rollout was reported as very good; local weather was 30 °C with an 8 kt wind from 150°, a 3 kt crosswind and a 7 kt headwind.
After landing, the aircraft rolled out along the runway and then taxied to the parking area in three minutes, covering less than one nautical mile.
In total, the flight covered 414 nm, required 88 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 597 kg of fuel.
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