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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Fixing the bounce
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 125 kt with 8.2° 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 975 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 542 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,330 fpm on average to 975 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 2,059 m runway.
Rolled from 519 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 8 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.3 m right. Airborne 67 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 101° right of the track, 170° of bank.
Wind 222° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 2 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 1 s, an average deceleration of 1.10 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 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 671 m in, 366 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 11 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 2,060 fpm before coming down at 2,080 fpm to touch. The nose went down 21.2° 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 full 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 103 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 671 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. It bounced 6 times.
The rest of the report
The flight on the Just Flight RJ85 CityJet from Dublin Airport (EIDW) to Maidstone (Kent, England) was a smooth one overall. The taxi from the parking to the runway took 14 minutes, covering 3 nm. The departure roll on runway 16 at EIDW was 872 meters, with a takeoff speed of 126 knots. The local weather at departure was 21°C with a light 3-knot wind.
During the enroute climb, the aircraft ascended from 1,269 ft to 34,978 ft, covering 107 nm in 19 minutes. The enroute level cruise lasted 19 minutes, covering 131 nm. The descent started 2 miles south of Inkpen, descending from 34,995 ft to 2,112 ft over a distance of 66 nm in 10 minutes.
The final approach and landing were a bit challenging, with a go-around needed 1 mile west of Maidstone due to a low approach. The touchdown speed was good at 1 knot, but the touchdown rate was very heavy at -2,076 ft/m. The touchdown distance was 164 meters. The local weather at the time of landing was 7°C with a light 2-knot wind.
After landing, taxiing from the runway to the parking took 220 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 315 nm, taking 54 minutes in total and consuming 1,943 kg of fuel. Overall, the flight was eventful, with good climb and cruise phases, but a challenging final approach and landing.
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