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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Ease the yoke smoothly to hold a steady one g through the ground roll instead of letting it sag to 0.5 g.
What happened: During the ground roll the g force averaged 0.5 g, well below the smooth steady load expected while tracking the runway.
Watch for: Watch the g meter and hold it steady near one g through the roll.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Bring the power back earlier on the approach so you are at 75 kt by the stabilisation gate, well before final.
What happened: This flight was already fast at the stabilisation gate, at 113 kt, and that excess speed was still showing up over the threshold and at touchdown. Carrying too much speed that early in the approach usually rides all the way down through the threshold and into the touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 75 kt at the stabilisation gate.
When Vr arrives, an abrupt near-full-scale pull, pitch overshoots, a push, and an oscillation through the first 200 ft. It feels like “this aircraft is twitchy” but the actual fault happened before liftoff. The pitch trace needs to show a clean ramp during liftoff.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 95 kt with 2.1° 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 785 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 507 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,280 fpm on average to 785 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 1,093 m runway.
Rolled from 182 m in, never more than 0.3 m off the centreline, in 12 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 18 % 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: 3 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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 23 kt above the approach speed of 75 kt.
Sideslipping at the lower gate - wing down, opposite rudder. That is a technique for losing height without gaining speed, so the sink rate, the glideslope and wings level are not asked there: they are what the slip is for. The other checks are marked as usual.
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
Never every check met at once: fast all the way and left of the centreline until 0.6 nm.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 300 ft above 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° 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.
Inside the 1° band from 1.9 nm, where the final began, to 1.2 nm, then drifted 41 m left between 1.2 and 0.6 nm, then inside the band from 0.6 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +43 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
Perfect landing flare
12 kt across from the right, which takes about 8° of crab to hold the centreline at 87 kt. Touched down with 8° of it still on, 4° of bank.
Wind 004° at 13 kt · 5 kt head · 12 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 81 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 1,093 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 36 ft, 353 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 5 ft, 45 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 146 m in, 159 m short of 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 1,093 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 840 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° 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 full 1,093 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.4 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6.4 m left at the widest.
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 146 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Lancair Legacy departed from runway 30 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield. Takeoff used 265 m, 24 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 94 kt. Local weather was 8 °C with wind 13 kt from 005°, giving a 12 kt cross-wind and a 5 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 32 seconds, averaging 1,305 fpm and reaching 120 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 2,444 ft asl to 5,449 ft asl in 2 minutes while covering 7 nm, passing overhead Ville-la-Grand. Cruise was level at 5,600 ft asl for 14 minutes, covering 52 nm, starting overhead Arbusigny. Descent began from 5,462 ft asl to 2,348 ft asl in 9 minutes over 26 nm, starting overhead Nancy-sur-Cluses, with a brief level-off at 2,600 ft asl.
On final approach to runway 30 at LFLI Annemasse Airfield, descent was from 963 ft agl to 39 ft agl in 62 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down and landing flap, but not met for speed. The aircraft was configured with landing flap on final.
Touchdown occurred on runway 30. The threshold height was good, but the threshold speed was too high at 92 kt. Flare was described as perfect. Touchdown distance was 146 m, speed at touchdown was 87 kt (fast), and the vertical rate was smooth at minus 128 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 6.4 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 710 m, 65 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 88 nm in 31 minutes and used 24 kg of fuel.
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