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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 2.8°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 23 stages, 21 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 139 kt with 5.1° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 288 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,276 ft of runway left; then climbing at 860 fpm on average to 288 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.
Plan view the roll down the 10,463 ft runway.
Rolled from 280 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 12 ft at the widest, and lifted off 12 ft right. Airborne 51 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set.
At the 500 ft gate: no landing flap set and speed more than 19 kt above the approach speed of 124 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 1.7 nm, then not again: fast from 1.7 nm and low from 1.1 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° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 1.1 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 160 ft under).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 8× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 160 ft off the centreline.
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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.7 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +21 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
Perfect landing flare
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 125 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 279° at 9 kt · 8 kt head · 4 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 11 ft, 39 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,180 ft in, 180 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 grew from 20 fpm at 9 ft to 70 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 5,000 ft of the 7,304 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 6 ft of it down 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 1,180 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.11 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
The B-2 Spirit taxied from the parking area to runway 15 at PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The take-off roll used 5,091 ft, which is 49 % of the runway, and liftoff occurred at 140 kt. Local weather was 65 °F with a wind of 5 kt from 310°, a 3 kt crosswind and a 4 kt tailwind component.
Initial climb to 400 ft agl took 19 seconds, averaging 710 fpm and reaching 181 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 457 ft asl to 38,576 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 133 nm while remaining overhead PANC. Level flight at 38,100 ft asl continued for 70 minutes, covering 2,250 nm, beginning 3 mi south-west of PAFW Farewell Airport. A further climb from 38,135 ft asl to 41,408 ft asl took 2 minutes and covered 48 nm, starting 3 mi east of Boganida. Level flight at 42,500 ft asl lasted 100 minutes, covering 3,060 nm, beginning 2 mi north-east of Volochanka.
Descent from 43,998 ft asl to 18,916 ft asl occurred in 8 minutes over 53 nm, starting 18 mi east of OMSN Sir Abu Nu'ayr Airport. Level flight at 18,900 ft asl continued for 6 minutes, covering less than 1 nm, beginning 9 mi south-west of OM11 Abu Dhabi Northeast Airport - Suweihan Air Base. A further descent from 18,894 ft asl to 10,714 ft asl took 5 minutes and covered 23 nm, starting 9 mi south-west of the same base. Level flight at 10,600 ft asl lasted 63 minutes, covering 12 nm, beginning 24 mi south-east of OM11 Abu Dhabi Northeast Airport - Suweihan Air Base. The final descent from 10,725 ft asl to 1,418 ft asl took 7 minutes, covering 27 nm, starting 21 mi east of OMAM Al Dhafra Air Base.
The approach to runway 31 at OMAD Al Bateen Executive Airport was conducted in the reported weather of 86 °F, wind 9 kt from 280°, a 4 kt crosswind and an 8 kt headwind. Stabilisation checks were met: threshold speed was good at 133 kt, and the flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred at 125 kt, with a good touchdown distance of 1,179 ft and a perfect touchdown rate of 5 fpm. Alignment on touchdown and during rollout was perfect. Two bounces were recorded on touchdown. Total landing distance was 3,724 ft, which is 51 % of the runway length of 7,304 ft, and rollout alignment remained perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm. The entire flight covered 5,612 nm, lasted 213 minutes, and consumed 151,000 lb of fuel.
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