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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 37 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 150 kt with 5.8° 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 0 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
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 545 m runway.
Rolled from 107 m in, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline. Airborne 106 % of the way down the runway, past 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 0.7 to 0.5 nm, then not again: low from 0.5 nm and right of the centreline from 0.5 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 80 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: 3.5° 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.5 nm, then drifted 47 m right between 1.5 and 0.7 nm, then back inside it from 0.7 to 0.5 nm, then 16 m right of it from 0.5 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.6 nm (up to +47 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 251° at 3 kt · 3 kt head · 0 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 103 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 15 s, an average deceleration of 0.27 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 11 ft, 39 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 101 m in, 204 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 1,524 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 410 fpm at 10 ft to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.5° 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 4.4 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.3 m right 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 101 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 04 at LFLJ Courchevel Altiport, a small airfield in the French Alps. The Boeing F/A-18E aircraft accelerated down the 528-meter runway, covering 97% of its length, before lifting off into the air at a speed of 151 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 8 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind blowing at 3 knots from a direction of 272 degrees.
As the aircraft climbed away from Courchevel, it began to ascend to a higher altitude, eventually reaching a level of 33,638 feet above sea level. This climb phase was completed in just 3 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 17 nautical miles. The climb was a steep one, with the aircraft gaining an altitude of 27,151 feet in a short period of time.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, during which it maintained a steady altitude and airspeed. This phase of the flight lasted for 3 minutes and covered a distance of 27 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, gradually losing altitude as it made its way towards its destination.
The descent phase was followed by another level cruise phase, this time lasting for 20 minutes and covering a distance of 187 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, losing altitude rapidly as it approached the runway at LOWI Innsbruck Airport. The descent phase was completed in just 7 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 6 nautical miles and lost an altitude of 28,334 feet.
As the aircraft approached the runway, it began its final approach, flying towards the runway from the east at a heading of 261.0 degrees. The aircraft was at an altitude of 1,544 feet above ground level and was 4 nautical miles from the runway at this point.
The landing was completed on runway 26 at LOWI Innsbruck Airport, a runway that was 1,891 meters long. The aircraft touched down at a speed of 105 knots, which was slightly below the target threshold speed of 110 knots. The touchdown distance was good, at 102 meters, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 4.8 meters.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius and a gentle wind blowing at 3 knots from a direction of 251 degrees. The crosswind component was 1 knot, while the headwind component was 3 knots.
The total landing distance was 399 meters, which was just 21% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good, indicating that the aircraft had maintained a stable and controlled descent throughout the landing phase. The total flight distance was 274 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 39 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 2,220 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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