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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Work on the flare
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 21 stages, 19 scored
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 9,809 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2,180 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 2.54 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Cessna CJ4 Citation began with a 7-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at RJOA Hiroshima Airport. The departure roll was from runway 10, and the takeoff distance was 2,208 ft, which was 23% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 134 kn. The local weather at the time of departure was 64°F with a wind of 1 kn coming from 122°, resulting in a crosswind of 1 kn and a headwind of 1 kn.
The enroute climb started 1 mile east of RJOA Hiroshima Airport and lasted 18 minutes, during which the aircraft climbed from 1,866 ft above sea level to 40,574 ft above sea level, covering a distance of 61 nm. The enroute level cruise began 2 miles south of Tokuyama and lasted 2 minutes while covering 12 nm.
The enroute descent was initiated 5 miles south of RJOF JASDF Hofu Airfield and took 4 minutes to descend from 40,514 ft above sea level to 30,474 ft above sea level, covering 26 nm. The subsequent enroute level cruise began 1 mile southeast of RJFR Kitakyushu Airport, lasting 2 minutes and covering 9 nm. The next descent started 3 miles south of Kitakyushu, with a descent from 29,753 ft above sea level to 1,815 ft above sea level, covering a distance of 72 nm over 23 minutes.
The landing occurred on runway 32 at RJFU Nagasaki Airport, which has a runway length of 9,809 ft. The aircraft was at a height of 108 ft above ground level at the threshold, with a speed of 108 kn. The touchdown occurred 2,141 ft from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 89 kn and a vertical speed indicator reading of -462 ft/m. The local weather at the time of landing was 73°F with a wind of 7 kn coming from 310°, resulting in a crosswind of 1 kn and a headwind of 7 kn.
The total landing distance was 3,727 ft, which was 38% of the runway length. After landing, it took 3 minutes to taxi from the runway to the parking area, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance covered was 190 nm, with a total duration of 72 minutes. The flight consumed 1,038 lbs of fuel during the journey.
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