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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 4.5° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 0.9° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Below 10,000 ft you are typically limited to 250 kt indicated (a US rule that much of the world mirrors in some form, though not universally). This forces a deceleration around 10,000 ft whether the profile wants one or not, so plan for it rather than discovering it.
Start to finish · 16 stages, 14 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 142 kt with 10.5° 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 980 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,830 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,860 fpm on average to 980 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 3,701 m runway.
Rolled from 173 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.7 m left. Airborne 40 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.2 nm, about 1,040 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the wings.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 220 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° 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 323 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 3.6 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +0 kt and +17 kt on the approach speed of 139 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
Fair landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 210° at 3 kt · 1 kt head · 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.
From 137 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 49 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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 2,052 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 343 m in, close to 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 2,052 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 710 fpm at 43 ft to 280 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.6° 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 2,052 m of the 3,006 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.9 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.9 m left by the end of 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.
The 343 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This flight took off from runway 31R at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport, flying an Embraer E195 aircraft. The takeoff distance was 1,313 meters, which corresponds to 35% of the total length of the runway. At a liftoff speed of 142 knots, the aircraft began its ascent, overcoming the effects of wind, which was blowing at 4 knots from a direction of 326 degrees. This resulted in a headwind of 4 knots and a minimal crosswind of 1 knot.
As the aircraft climbed, it started to ascend from an altitude of 1,481 feet above sea level, increasing to 3,761 feet over a distance of 4 nautical miles in 2 minutes. The climb was then followed by a descent, which began 1 mile south east of Nagytarcsa, with the aircraft reducing its altitude from 3,775 feet to 2,274 feet over a distance of 5 nautical miles in 3 minutes.
During the flight, the crew opted to level the aircraft for a short period of 5 minutes, which commenced 2 miles north east of Kobanya and covered 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 13R at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport, approaching from the northwest and aligning with the heading of 125.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles away.
On landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway at a speed of 140 knots, which was slightly higher than the target. The touchdown distance was well within the acceptable limit, measuring 345 meters. Although the landing rate was high at -483 feet per minute, the runway touchdown position was slightly offset by 4.5 meters from the centerline. The overall landing distance covered was 1,976 meters, representing 66% of the runway length. The aircraft maintained good alignment during the rollout phase.
On completion of the landing, the E195 aircraft had covered a total distance of 17 nautical miles, burning marginally less fuel over the course of the flight (-1 kilogram). This result, combined with the favorable rollout, suggests that the flight was conducted successfully despite the relatively challenging conditions.
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