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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 2.2°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Lower the gear before the stabilisation gate, completing the landing checklist well ahead of final approach.
What happened: On final approach, the gear was not down in time for landing.
Watch for: Gear indicator: three greens confirmed before the gate
See Arrival Final 1
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 · 17 stages, 15 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 73 kt with 2.8° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 233 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,015 m of runway left; then climbing at 700 fpm on average to 233 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 1,737 m runway.
Rolled from 131 m in, drifted 5.1 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 27 % 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 seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up and centreline more than 1° off.
At the 500 ft gate: gear still up and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: gear up all the way, banked until 3.2 nm, sinking too fast until 2.7 nm, left of the centreline until 1.4 nm, fast until 1.2 nm and no landing flap until 0.5 nm.
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 3.4 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 740 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 382 m left of the centreline at 3.4 nm, then inside the band from 1.4 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.
Inside the speed band from 3.4 nm, where the final began, to 3.0 nm, then fast to 1.2 nm (up to +33 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
Perfect landing flare
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 2° of bank.
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 57 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 31 m in, 273 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 grew from 240 fpm at 5 ft to 300 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 1,524 m of the 1,737 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.1 m right of the centreline.
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 31 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.37 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 20R at KSNA John Wayne Orange County International Airport. The aircraft, a Cessna C182, accelerated down the runway and lifted off at a speed of 74 kt, covering a distance of 360 m, which was 21% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 20 °C and a wind speed of 2 kt from 230 °, resulting in a crosswind of 1 kt and a headwind of 2 kt.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it reached an altitude of 2,102 ft asl, an increase of 1,782 ft from the initial altitude of 320 ft asl, in just 2 minutes. This climb phase covered a distance of 3 nm. The aircraft then leveled off and entered a cruise phase, which lasted for 7 minutes and covered a distance of 8 nm, 1 mile south of Irvine, California.
The aircraft then began another climb phase, this time from 2,297 ft asl to 3,000 ft asl, an increase of 703 ft, in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nm. This climb phase took place 1 mile north of Fountain Valley, California. Following this, the aircraft entered another level cruise phase, which lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nm, 1 mile northwest of Santa Ana, California.
As the aircraft began its descent, it started from an altitude of 2,897 ft asl and descended to 1,394 ft asl, a decrease of 1,503 ft, in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nm. The descent phase took place overhead Santa Ana, California.
The final approach to runway 20R at KSNA John Wayne Orange County International Airport was made from the north east, with a heading of 215.0 ° at 3 nm and an altitude of 1,319 ft agl. The landing was successful, with a touchdown speed of 57 kt and a touchdown distance of 29 m, which was 18% of the runway length. The threshold speed was good at 58 kt, and the touchdown rate was fair at -234 fpm.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 16 °C and a wind speed of 0 kt from 360 °, resulting in no crosswind or headwind. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the runway rollout alignment was also very good. The total landing distance was 318 m, and the taxiing to the parking from the runway took less than 1 minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nm.
The total flight distance was 21 nm, and the flight duration was 23 minutes. The aircraft used 10 kg of fuel during the flight.
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