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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 3.8°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 118 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 136 kt against a target of 118 kt, and touchdown ended up well past the normal point. Carrying excess threshold speed usually carries the touchdown long as the aircraft floats before settling.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, targeting 118 kt at the threshold.
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.
Rotated at 124 kt, on the 122 kt target, and lifted off at 137 kt 2.8 s later, the nose coming up at 2.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 139 kt, 30 kt under its 169 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 612 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,153 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,480 fpm on average to 612 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 2,131 m runway.
Rolled from 36 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4 m at the widest, and lifted off 4 m left. Airborne 35 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 180 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.
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 238 m left of the centreline at 1.0 nm.
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 1.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +25 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 flare tracked the target profile exactly. Crossing the threshold 18 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 696 m past the threshold. The flare cannot burn off excess energy - fix the approach speed and the float goes with it.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 269° at 2 kt · 0 kt tail · 2 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 54 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 41 ft. Touched down 696 m in, 391 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 580 fpm at the flare to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.8° 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 2,186 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 7 m left on 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.
Touched down 696 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 750 Citation X taxied to runway 31 at KLGA LaGuardia Airport and departed, using 747 m of runway (35 % of runway). Rotation was achieved at 124 kt. Local weather at departure was 17 °C with wind 2 kt from 270°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft AGL took 12 seconds, averaging 2,324 fpm and reaching 139 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 706 ft ASL to 16,007 ft ASL in 6 minutes, covering 31 nm while remaining overhead KLGA.
Level flight was maintained at 16,000 ft ASL for 22 minutes, covering 152 nm, beginning about 1 mile north of Oceanport.
Descent began from 15,890 ft ASL and continued to 216 ft ASL in 8 minutes, covering 35 nm, starting 2 miles north-west of Tilghman Island.
The approach to KDCA Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was on runway 19 (runway length 2,186 m). The threshold speed was well above target at 136 kt. The aircraft flared perfectly and floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 272 m beyond the touchdown zone at 122 kt, a little fast, with a fair descent rate of minus 242 fpm. Runway-touchdown alignment was perfect; there was no bounce. Local weather at landing was 17 °C with wind 2 kt from 269°, a 2 kt cross-wind and no head-wind. Total landing distance was 1,426 m (65 % of runway). Rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 8.9 m.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 220 nm in 39 minutes and used 738 kg of fuel.
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