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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 313 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 204 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 105 kt, 3 kt below the 108 kt target, and lifted off at 122 kt 2.9 s later, the nose coming up at 2.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 148 kt, 10 kt under its 158 kt target.
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 945 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,543 m of runway left; gear up at 221 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,460 fpm on average to 945 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 3,361 m runway.
Rolled from 77 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.5 m left. Airborne 19 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 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 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 240 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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 78 m off 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 25 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +7 kt and +18 kt on the approach speed of 100 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.3 points, mostly for rising 2 ft agl in the flare.
7 kt across from the right, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 95 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 259° at 11 kt · 8 kt head · 7 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 91 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 50 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 15 ft; ballooned 2 ft from 1 ft. Touched down 529 m in, 225 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 110 fpm before coming down at 200 fpm to touch. The nose came up 1.3° 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 3,259 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 5 m right on the rollout, back to 2.1 m right by the end.
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 529 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Phenom 300E taxied from the parking area to runway 16L at KAFW Perot Field/Fort Worth Alliance Airport in 10 minutes, covering 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 16L, the aircraft accelerated over a distance of 646 m, representing 19 % of the runway, and lifted off at 122 kt; ambient conditions were 28 °C with a wind of 7 kt from 130°, a 4 kt cross-wind component and a 5 kt head-wind component.
The initial climb began overhead KAFW, climbing from 1,737 ft asl to 12,824 ft asl, an increase of 11,087 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 8 nm.
A short level cruise followed overhead Trophy Club, lasting 3 minutes and extending 15 nm.
A second climb segment started 2 mi north-west of Oak Point, rising from 13,515 ft asl to 46,506 ft asl, a gain of 32,991 ft in 16 minutes and traversing 96 nm.
The aircraft then entered a prolonged cruise 7 mi west of 6OK7 Cochran Ranch Airport Atoka, which lasted 76 minutes and covered 415 nm.
Descent commenced 2 mi south-east of Raleigh, descending from 46,475 ft asl to 20,279 ft asl, a loss of 26,196 ft in 20 minutes while traveling 148 nm.
A brief level segment followed 4 mi north-west of 3IN6 Holloway Field New Washington, lasting 3 minutes and covering 24 nm.
The next descent began overhead 8II0 Allen and Gloss Airport Bennington, dropping from 19,908 ft asl to 4,145 ft asl, a decrease of 15,763 ft in 9 minutes across 51 nm.
A further cruise segment started 2 mi south of I68 Lebanon-Warren Co Lebanon, lasting 7 minutes and spanning 31 nm.
Descent resumed overhead 50OH Culver Field Oregon, falling from 4,122 ft asl to 2,447 ft asl, a loss of 1,675 ft in 3 minutes and covering 10 nm.
A final short cruise originated 2 mi south-east of Bowersville, lasting 2 minutes and extending 4 nm.
The aircraft entered the final approach to runway 22R at KILN Wilmington Airpark from the north-east, on a heading of 219.0° at 4 nm and 1,355 ft agl.
Landing on runway 22R was executed with a threshold speed of 107 kt; touchdown occurred 100 m beyond the touchdown zone at 95 kt, with a smooth touchdown rate of minus 133 fpm and perfect runway alignment. Local conditions were 32 °C with a wind of 11 kt from 259°, an 8 kt cross-wind and an 8 kt head-wind component.
The rollout covered 1,132 m, representing 35 % of the runway, and alignment remained very good throughout the deceleration phase.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 810 nm, lasted 135 minutes, and consumed 763 kg of fuel.
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