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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Rotate sooner, bringing the nose up at 70 kt rather than letting speed build further.
What happened: You lifted off at 83 kt against a rotation target of 70 kt, rotating late in the ground roll.
Watch for: Watch airspeed and rotate at the target of 70 kt.
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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 7.3 m off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 7.5 m.
Watch for: Runway centreline: aircraft tracking directly over it through touchdown and rollout.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,149 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,149 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 287 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA42 Twin Star taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at EGBJ Gloucestershire Airport in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 27, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 482 m, representing 42 % of the runway, and lifted off at 83 kt. Local weather at the time was temperature 16 °C with wind 10 kt from 240°, giving a cross-wind component of 4 kt and a head-wind component of 9 kt.
Climb commenced overhead EGBJ, with the aircraft ascending from 1,066 ft asl to 7,883 ft asl, an increase of 6,817 ft in 6 minutes while covering 8 nm.
The first level cruise began 1 mile north-east of Frampton on Severn, lasting 5 minutes and extending over 10 nm.
Descent started 1 mile west of Stone, dropping from 7,955 ft asl to 6,003 ft asl, a decrease of 1,952 ft in 3 minutes and covering 8 nm.
A second cruise segment originated 2 miles north-west of Chepstow, lasting 5 minutes and spanning 10 nm.
The next descent began 1 mile south-east of Pontypool, falling from 5,998 ft asl to 2,990 ft asl, a loss of 3,007 ft in 5 minutes over 9 nm.
Cruise continued overhead Machen for 18 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 37 nm.
Descent resumed 2 miles south-east of Rhoose, decreasing altitude from 2,995 ft asl to 1,504 ft asl, a loss of 1,491 ft in 3 minutes while covering 7 nm.
A brief cruise started 5 miles south-east of Barry, lasting 2 minutes and covering 3 nm.
Descent followed 2 miles south-east of Barry, dropping from 1,616 ft asl to 1,051 ft asl, a decrease of 565 ft in 2 minutes over 2 nm.
Climb was initiated 1 mile south of Barry, raising the aircraft from 1,040 ft asl to 6,037 ft asl, an increase of 4,998 ft in 6 minutes and covering 12 nm.
A short cruise began 1 mile north-west of Cardiff, lasting 2 minutes and extending 4 nm.
Descent started 1 mile south-west of Marshfield, descending from 5,999 ft asl to 3,198 ft asl, a loss of 2,801 ft in 5 minutes while covering 14 nm.
The final cruise segment originated 2 miles north of Caerwent, lasting 21 minutes and covering 46 nm.
Final approach to runway 27 at EGBJ was executed from the east, on a heading of 264.0° at 4 nm and 1,340 ft agl.
Landing on runway 27, which is 1,149 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 83 kt. Touchdown was recorded at 287 m from the threshold, at a speed of 66 kt and a descent rate of minus 55 fpm; the touchdown point was 7.3 m off centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 15 °C with wind 16 kt from 241°, giving a cross-wind component of 6 kt and a head-wind component of 15 kt. Total landing distance was 478 m, again 42 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
In total, the flight covered 176 nm, took 86 minutes, and consumed 40 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A320ceo entered the final approach to runway 25R at Brussels Airport from the north-east on a heading of 245.0° at 4 nm and 1,283 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
During the threshold and flare phase the threshold speed was recorded as good at 123 kt and the aircraft crossed the threshold height without deviation. Touchdown was achieved 90 m beyond the designated touchdown zone.
At touchdown the speed was 116 kt, noted as a little fast, and the vertical rate was firm at minus 321 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 850 m, representing 26 % of the 3,329 m runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
Maintain touchdown speed closer to the target VREF and refine flare timing to achieve a softer touchdown, which will further improve the already high score of 95.6 %.
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