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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: You drifted off the centreline on the approach.
Watch for: Runway centreline: tracked all the way to the threshold.
See Arrival Approach
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 · 17 stages, 15 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 98 kt, 9 kt below the 107 kt target, and lifted off at 122 kt 4.0 s later, the nose coming up at 2.4° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 158 kt target, at 158 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 943 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 668 m of runway left; gear up at 99 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,310 fpm on average to 943 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 2,988 m runway.
Rolled from 1,659 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.6 m right, in 5 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 73 % 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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.4 nm, about 160 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 140 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 3.7 nm, then drifted 167 m left between 3.7 and 2.5 nm, then inside the band from 2.5 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 26 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.9 nm, then fast to 0.6 nm (up to +16 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 240° at 6 kt · 6 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 92 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 1,366 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 34 ft, 217 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 6 ft, 44 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 96 m in, 209 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 1,366 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 760 fpm at the flare to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.3° 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 full 1,366 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.8 m right of the centreline and drifted to 5 m right 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 96 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Phenom 300E taxied from the parking area to runway 28R at KIAG Niagara Falls International Airport, a movement that lasted 12 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 28R, the aircraft used 2,166 m of runway, representing 72 % of the available length, and lifted off at 122 kt. Local weather at the time was 21 °C with wind 9 kt from 310°, a cross-wind component of 6 kt and a head-wind component of 7 kt.
Climb commenced 1 mile south of NY24 Taylor Johnson Airport, with the aircraft ascending from 1,626 ft asl to 32,386 ft asl, an increase of 30,760 ft achieved in 9 minutes while covering 48 nm.
The first level-cruise segment began 2 miles north-east of Brocton, New York, and lasted 3 minutes, during which 22 nm were flown.
Descent started 4 miles south-east of North East, Pennsylvania, with altitude decreasing from 32,969 ft asl to 3,408 ft asl, a loss of 29,561 ft completed in 19 minutes over 98 nm.
A second cruise phase originated 1 mile east of Fairport Harbor, Ohio, lasting 3 minutes and covering 8 nm.
The final descent began 1 mile north of Kirtland, Ohio, dropping from 3,017 ft asl to 2,235 ft asl, a reduction of 782 ft in 2 minutes while traveling 3 nm.
On final approach to runway 24 at KCGF Cuyahoga County Airport, the aircraft approached from the north-east on a heading of 228.0°, intercepting the glide path at 4 nm and 1,332 ft agl.
Landing was executed on runway 24, which is 1,366 m long. The threshold speed was recorded at 99 kt, touchdown occurred 95 m down the runway at 96 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 243 fpm. Total landing distance measured 639 m, representing 47 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was very good, and the aircraft remained on the centreline throughout the deceleration phase.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 187 nm, required 48 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 348 kg of fuel.
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