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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 5.1 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and wing drift like that usually keeps reappearing as bank in the climb, with 1.8° of bank in the first climb segment and 3.6° still showing in the second.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the runway centreline during the roll, then wings level through 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 · 22 stages, 20 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 92 kt with 3.8° 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 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 1,009 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 989 m of runway left; then climbing at 960 fpm on average to 1,009 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 2,095 m runway.
Rolled from 718 m in, drifted 5.3 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 7 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 45 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.2 nm, about 880 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 110 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 342 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 2.2 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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +4 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 83 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
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 250° at 9 kt · 9 kt head · 1 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 64 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 57 s, an average deceleration of 0.04 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 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 204 m in, 101 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 went from 540 fpm at 30 ft to 140 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.1° 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 1,891 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.5 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.3 m left by the end of 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 204 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a short taxiing period from the parking to the runway, taking approximately 1 minute and covering less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a DA62, then departed from runway 05R at LFJY Chambley Airfield, with a takeoff distance of 247 meters, which accounted for 12% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 93 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 0°C, with a wind speed of 21 knots at a direction of 70°. This resulted in a crosswind of 7 knots and a headwind of 20 knots. The aircraft climbed from 1,868 feet above sea level to 14,516 feet above sea level, an increase of 12,649 feet, in just 8 minutes and covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The enroute climb started over Chambley, in the Grand Est region of France, and continued until the aircraft reached its cruising altitude. The enroute level cruise then began over Ancy-sur-Moselle, also in the Grand Est region, and lasted for 74 minutes, covering a distance of 203 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its descent from 14,554 feet above sea level to 14,081 feet above sea level, a decrease of 473 feet, in just 2 minutes and covering a distance of 5 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise then resumed 2 miles southeast of Haeselgehr, in the Tirol region of Austria, and lasted for 18 minutes, covering a distance of 49 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its descent from 13,566 feet above sea level to 9,621 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,944 feet, in 7 minutes and covering a distance of 17 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise then resumed 2 miles south of Alpbach, in the Tirol region, and lasted for 7 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles.
The final descent began 2 miles south of Gallzein, in the Tirol region, and the aircraft descended from 8,842 feet above sea level to 3,498 feet above sea level, a decrease of 5,345 feet, in 8 minutes and covering a distance of 13 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 26 at LOWI Innsbruck Airport, flying from the east at a heading of 258.0° and at an altitude of 1,587 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 26 at LOWI Innsbruck Airport was successful, with a touchdown distance of 204 meters and a touchdown speed of 74 knots. The touchdown rate was smooth at -131 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.5 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 4°C, with a wind speed of 9 knots at a direction of 250°. This resulted in a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 9 knots.
The total landing distance was 681 meters, which accounted for 36% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good, and the aircraft then taxied to the parking from the runway, taking approximately 2 minutes and covering less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 306 nautical miles, taking 134 minutes, and the aircraft used 85 kilograms of fuel.
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