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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 134 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 55 kt fast at 189 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 134 kt in the climb
Arrival
Close the throttles earlier on final so you cross the threshold at 83 kt rather than carrying excess speed.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 96 kt, 13 kt above the 83 kt target, and the nose was then only raised 1.2° in the flare, taking out little of the sink. Crossing the threshold fast like this usually carries extra energy into a flare that barely arrests the sink, and that combination usually ends in a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 83 kt at the threshold.
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 87 kt, on the 86 kt target, and lifted off at 91 kt 0.8 s later, the nose coming up at 4.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 189 kt, 55 kt over its 134 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 955 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 661 m of runway left; gear up at 21 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 860 fpm on average to 955 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 1,521 m runway.
Rolled from 97 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.1 m right. Airborne 38 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven 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. These checks are the approach's score.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.9 to 0.4 nm, then not again: fast from 0.4 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 530 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.
Joined 841 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 2.9 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.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.7 nm (up to +65 kt), then inside the band to 0.4 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +14 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
The flare wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.2° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 335 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 064° at 5 kt · 4 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 88 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 20 ft. Touched down 335 m in, close to 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 260 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at 8 ft, then back up to 230 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 3,487 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 21 m left on 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 335 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 227 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 11 at SYCJ Cheddi Jagan International Airport in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 11, the take-off run measured 604 m, representing 40 % of the available runway, and the aircraft lifted off at 91 kt; ambient temperature was 27 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 059°, a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced 3 mi east of SYCJ, where the aircraft rose from 1,062 ft asl to 3,498 ft asl-a gain of 2,435 ft-in 3 minutes while covering 11 nm.
Level cruise began 14 mi east of SYCJ and continued for 40 minutes, during which 167 nm were flown.
Descent started 12 mi west of SMJP Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport, with the aircraft descending from 3,494 ft asl to 580 ft asl, a loss of 2,914 ft in 3 minutes and covering 10 nm.
The final approach to runway 11 at SMJP proceeded from 778 ft agl to 27 ft agl in 149 seconds, and the aircraft met the stabilisation gates; weather conditions were 27 °C, wind 4 kt from 065°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 4 kt head-wind.
Landing on runway 11, which is 3,487 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 97 kt, a touchdown distance of 334 m, a touchdown speed of 89 kt, and a touchdown rate of minus 186 fpm; the touchdown point was offset 12.3 m from the centreline and the total landing distance was 774 m, equivalent to 22 % of the runway.
Runway rollout showed a slight alignment deviation of 13.6 m from the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 196 nm, took 56 minutes, and consumed 193 kg of fuel.
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