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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smooth aileron to roll the wings level in the first climb segment, holding bank angle near wings-level instead of letting it build to 5.9°.
What happened: The wings held 5.9° of bank through the first climb segment and had drifted to 2° by the second - this early wing-level drift usually carries through into a larger bank excursion later in the climb.
Watch for: Watch the attitude indicator's bank pointer and keep it at wings level throughout the climb.
Arrival
On final, shallow the descent to match the target approach angle rather than flying a steeper path.
What happened: On final approach at the Final 3 stage, the descent angle was steeper than the target approach path.
Watch for: Watch the approach angle against the target, aiming to keep it closer to 3.2 degrees.
See Arrival Final 3
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 · 19 stages, 17 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 89 kt with 7.1° 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 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 936 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,053 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,590 fpm on average to 936 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,572 m runway.
Rolled from 74 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.7 m left. Airborne 25 % 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: centreline more than 1° off.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: right of the centreline all the way, sinking too fast until 3.7 nm, slow from 0.7 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 510 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 350 m right of 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 45 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 27 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −10 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
12 kt across from the left, which takes about 10° of crab to hold the centreline at 70 kt. Touched down with 9° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 180° at 13 kt · 4 kt head · 12 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 71 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 26 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 277 m in, close to 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 550 fpm at 23 ft to 60 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.0° 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 2,571 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 15 m left on 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 277 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Beechcraft Duke taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Skiathos Island National Airport, taking 6 minutes and covering a distance of 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 19, with a takeoff distance of 404 meters, which accounted for 26% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 89 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of 20°C temperature and winds of 11 knots at 173 degrees. The crosswind was 5 knots, while the headwind was 10 knots. The enroute climb started over Skiathos, with the aircraft ascending from 1,033 feet above sea level to 18,316 feet above sea level, an increase of 17,284 feet in 16 minutes, covering a distance of 48 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began 23 miles southeast of Sykia, Central Macedonia, Greece, and lasted for 14 minutes, covering a distance of 67 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its descent 6 miles west of Samothraki, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, and descended from 18,055 feet above sea level to 2,455 feet above sea level, a decrease of 15,600 feet in 12 minutes, covering a distance of 49 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise resumed 1 mile south of Peplos, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, and lasted for 6 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 25 at Alexandroupoli Democritus Airport took place from the east, with the aircraft heading 249.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,670 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 25 took place at a speed of 80 knots, which was slightly below the target speed. The touchdown distance was good at 276 meters, and the touchdown speed was 70 knots, which was also good. The touchdown rate was smooth at -113 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 16°C temperature and winds of 15 knots at 180 degrees, with a crosswind of 15 knots and a headwind of 5 knots.
The total landing distance was 687 meters, which accounted for 27% of the runway. However, the runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 16.6 meters from the centerline. The taxiing to the parking area from the runway took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 182 nautical miles, taking 59 minutes, and the aircraft used 112 kilograms of fuel.
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