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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 87 kt with 3.4° 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 1,019 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,107 m of runway left; then climbing at 780 fpm on average to 1,019 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 1,871 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 2.3 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 26 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.7 nm, about 810 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 670 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 233 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.7 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 44 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −3 kt and +13 kt on the approach speed of 87 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
Great landing flare
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 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 83 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 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.
Crossed the threshold at 40 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 523 m in, 218 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 1,524 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 490 fpm at 40 ft to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° 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 1,891 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.4 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 2.8 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.
Touched down 523 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in question departed from Sion Airport (LSGS) in Switzerland and headed towards Innsbruck Airport (LOWI) in Austria. The aircraft, a DA62, began its taxiing process from the parking area to the runway, which took approximately 2 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile.
Upon reaching the runway, departure roll started from runway 07, with a takeoff distance of 544 meters, which accounted for 29% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 87 knots. The local weather conditions were recorded as a temperature of 19 °C, with a wind speed of 6 knots at a direction of 90 °. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 knots, a headwind of 6 knots, and an overall ground wind of 3 knots.
After clearing the Sion area, the aircraft began its initial climb, reaching an altitude of 11,119 feet above sea level from an initial height of 2,611 feet. This 8,508-foot climb was achieved in 10 minutes, while covering a distance of 18 nautical miles. The enroute climb and level cruise stages of the flight involved multiple segments, each taking the aircraft over different destinations, including Finhaut, Vallorcine, and Magland in Switzerland and France, and Oetz and Umhausen in Austria.
One of the notable climbs during the flight was the ascent from 11,560 feet to 12,896 feet, which increased the altitude by 1,336 feet in just 3 minutes, covering 9 nautical miles. Another long level cruise segment spanned 67 minutes, covering a distance of 188 nautical miles between Magland and a location 2 miles east of Oetz.
During the descent phase of the flight, the aircraft lost 10,879 feet of altitude in 10 minutes, covering 13 nautical miles. A short level cruise segment followed the descent, taking the aircraft 1 mile west of Terfens in Austria.
Upon reaching the vicinity of Innsbruck Airport, the aircraft performed a final approach to runway 26, originating from the east at a heading of 260.0 °, at a distance of 3 nautical miles and an altitude of 752 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 26 was smooth, with a touchdown speed of 80 knots, which was slightly higher than the target speed. The touchdown point was 91 meters beyond the designated touchdown zone. The touchdown rate was smooth at -113 feet per minute. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 20 °C and a wind speed of 1 knot at a direction of 270 °, with a crosswind of 0 knots and a headwind of 1 knot.
The total landing distance was 921 meters, accounting for 49% of the available runway length. The runway rollout alignment was impeccable, with the aircraft coming to a halt in perfect alignment.
The final segment of the flight involved the taxiing process from the runway to the parking area, which took approximately 2 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The total distance covered during the flight was 289 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 2 hours and 1 minute, with the aircraft consuming 91 kilograms of fuel.
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