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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 2.5° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
Start to finish · 21 stages, 19 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 78 kt, on the 79 kt target, and lifted off at 82 kt 1.8 s later, the nose coming up at 1.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 94 kt target, at 94 kt on average.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 669 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 419 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,080 fpm on average to 669 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,149 m runway.
Rolled from 49 m in, drifted 5.8 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 10 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 42 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 78 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.3 nm, about 200 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after 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° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 330 ft below 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.
Outside the 1° band twice; furthest 123 m left at 2.9 nm.
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 39 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 3.4 nm, then slow to 3.0 nm (up to −9 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
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 6 times on the way down. Touchdown was 368 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 60 kt. Touched down with the nose 14° into wind, 5° of bank.
Wind 189° at 12 kt · 11 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.
From 55 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 22 ft, 28 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 11 ft; ballooned 4 ft from 4 ft. Touched down 368 m in, 63 m past 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 310 fpm before coming down at 210 fpm to touch. The nose came up 9.9° 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 1,737 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.3 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6 m left at the widest.
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 368 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 209 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA42 Twin Star taxied to runway 27 at EGBJ Gloucestershire Airport and commenced its departure roll, covering 499 m (43 % of the runway) before lifting off at 83 kt. Ambient conditions were 21 °C with a wind of 13 kt from 210°, including a 10 kt cross-wind component and an 8 kt head-wind component.
The initial climb began overhead the airport, climbing from 786 ft asl to 7,023 ft asl, an altitude gain of 6,236 ft achieved in 5 minutes while traversing 11 nm.
A level cruise segment started 1 nm east of Winchcombe and lasted 5 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 13 nm at a steady altitude.
The next climb segment started overhead Shipston on Stour, rising from 6,606 ft asl to 7,179 ft asl, a gain of 573 ft in 2 minutes over a distance of 3 nm.
A subsequent cruise leg began 1 nm north-east of Lower Brailes, lasting 3 minutes and covering 5 nm.
The following climb commenced 1 nm north-west of Lower Brailes, increasing altitude from 6,747 ft asl to 7,316 ft asl, a rise of 569 ft in 2 minutes while covering 2 nm.
A brief cruise then continued overhead Shipston on Stour for 2 minutes, covering 2 nm at constant altitude.
Descent began 1 nm north-west of Shipston on Stour, descending from 7,525 ft asl to 7,067 ft asl, a loss of 457 ft in 2 minutes across 3 nm.
The aircraft entered another level cruise segment over Halford, lasting 6 minutes and spanning 13 nm.
A further descent started 2 nm north-west of Hornton, dropping from 7,849 ft asl to 3,569 ft asl, a decrease of 4,280 ft in 5 minutes while covering 12 nm.
A long cruise phase followed over EGKV Preston Capes Airfield, lasting 26 minutes and covering 49 nm at a steady altitude.
The final descent commenced overhead Oakley, descending from 2,211 ft asl to 1,399 ft asl, a loss of 812 ft in 2 minutes over 2 nm.
The aircraft entered the final approach to runway 21 at EGTC Cranfield Airport from the north-east, aligned on a heading of 210.0° at 4 nm and 1,014 ft agl.
Landing on runway 21, which is 1,737 m long, the aircraft touched down after 367 m with a speed of 60 kt and a vertical rate of minus 176 fpm; the touchdown point was 3.3 m off centreline. The threshold speed was recorded at 85 kt, and the total landing roll measured 617 m (36 % of the runway). Weather at the time was 21 °C with a wind of 15 kt from 190°, a 5 kt cross-wind component and a 14 kt head-wind component. Runway rollout alignment was judged very good.
In total the flight covered 120 nm, required 64 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 30 kg of fuel.
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