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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 130 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 105 kt against a target of 130 kt, running 25 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 130 kt.
Arrival
Apply small rudder corrections at touchdown, aiming at a point at the far end of the runway, to stay on the centreline.
What happened: Touchdown drifted 5.7 m off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 5.7 m.
Watch for: Runway centreline: aircraft tracking directly over it through touchdown and rollout.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 86 kt, 4 kt below the 90 kt target, and lifted off at 90 kt 2.0 s later, the nose coming up at 2.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 105 kt, 25 kt under its 130 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 1,015 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 865 m of runway left; gear up at 93 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,500 fpm on average to 1,015 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 1,708 m runway.
Rolled from 268 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.3 m left. Airborne 39 % 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: seven checks where the approach path is 300 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.0 nm, about 370 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 300 ft gate.
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 1.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 120 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.
Joined 337 m left of the centreline at 1.4 nm, then inside the band from 1.1 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 45 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 27 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −3 kt and +23 kt on the approach speed of 89 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. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.8° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 221 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 001° at 8 kt · 7 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 75 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 1,040 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 26 ft, 153 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 9 ft, 41 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 221 m in, 84 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 1,040 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 290 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.4° 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 1,040 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.7 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 5.7 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 221 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from LIPB Bolzano Airport, the aircraft initiated its takeoff roll on runway 01, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 90 kt in 391 meters, which represented 32% of the runway's length. The local weather conditions at the time were characterized by a temperature of 20 °C, with a wind of 15 kt at 359°, resulting in a 3 kt crosswind and a 15 kt headwind.
As the aircraft transitioned to the enroute phase, it began a climb from 1,836 ft asl to 17,434 ft asl, an increase of 15,598 ft in 10 minutes, covering 24 nm. This was followed by a brief level cruise phase, lasting 3 minutes and covering 12 nm, before initiating another climb from 17,442 ft asl to 23,285 ft asl, an increase of 5,843 ft in 5 minutes, covering 18 nm. The aircraft then entered a prolonged level cruise phase, lasting 29 minutes and covering 118 nm, before commencing its descent from 23,254 ft asl to 4,852 ft asl, a decrease of 18,402 ft in 14 minutes, covering 54 nm. The aircraft continued to descend, reaching 1,832 ft asl in 5 minutes, covering 14 nm, before entering a final level cruise phase, lasting 3 minutes and covering 7 nm.
As the aircraft approached EDTF Freiburg im Breisgau Airfield, it initiated its final approach to runway 34 from the south, aligning with the runway at 1 nm and 299 ft agl. The landing was successful, with a touchdown distance of 221 m, a touchdown speed of 79 kt, and a touchdown rate of -189 fpm. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.7 m from the centreline. The total landing distance was 639 m, representing 72% of the runway's length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, covering less than 1 nm in 2 minutes. The total flight distance was 263 nm, with a total flight time of 81 minutes and a fuel consumption of 176 kg.
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