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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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
Make one smooth, continuous back-pressure through the flare to about 8° nose-up, holding it steady rather than pumping the elevator before touchdown.
What happened: The flare was pumped, with pitch reversing several times as the sink was most arrested at 19 ft; pumped flares like this usually carry through to a firm touchdown, which happened here at 387 fpm.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold a steady nose-up pitch of 8° through the flare, smoothly to touchdown.
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 79 kt, 5 kt below the 84 kt target, and lifted off at 83 kt 0.9 s later, the nose coming up at 4.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 144 kt, 28 kt over its 116 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 963 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,537 m of runway left; then climbing at 540 fpm on average to 963 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 2,388 m runway.
Rolled from 156 m in, drifted 3.8 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 9 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 18 % 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: no landing flap set, sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and speed more than 40 kt above the approach speed of 80 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.9 to 1.5 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 1.5 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 600 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 from 4 nm to 2.3 nm, then drifted 83 m left between 2.3 and 2.0 nm, then back inside it from 2.0 to 1.5 nm, then 52 m left of it from 1.5 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 40 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 1.9 nm (up to +68 kt), then inside the band to 0.6 nm, then fast to 0.2 nm (up to +29 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 strayed well off the target profile. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 8 times on the way down. Touchdown was 97 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
8 kt across from the right, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 70 kt. Touched down with 7° of it still on, 4° of bank.
Wind 270° at 14 kt · 11 kt head · 8 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 58 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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.
Began the flare at 41 ft, 191 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target; ballooned 3 ft from 17 ft. Touched down 97 m in, 208 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 1,524 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 620 fpm at the flare to 20 fpm at 20 ft, then back up to 390 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 6.5° 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 1,739 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 11 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.1 m left by the end of 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 97 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 387 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Diamond DA62 taxied from the parking area to runway 23 at EHLE Lelystad Airport; the taxi-out required 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 23 the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 442 m, representing 18 % of the runway, and lifted off at 83 kt. Local weather at the time was temperature 20 °C, wind 17 kt from 260°, with a crosswind component of 9 kt and a headwind component of 14 kt.
Climb commenced 3 miles southwest of EHLE, where the aircraft rose from 967 ft asl to 7,645 ft asl, an increase of 6,678 ft achieved in 6 minutes while covering 17 nm.
The first level cruise began 1 mile northwest of Elburg and lasted 102 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 202 nm.
Descent began 6 miles southeast of Frinton-on-Sea, with the aircraft descending from 7,882 ft asl to 6,363 ft asl, a loss of 1,519 ft in 2 minutes over a distance of 3 nm.
A second cruise segment started 4 miles southeast of Clacton-on-Sea, lasting 7 minutes and covering 12 nm.
The next descent started 2 miles southeast of Tillingham, where the aircraft dropped from 5,775 ft asl to 1,831 ft asl, a decrease of 3,944 ft in 3 minutes while traveling 6 nm.
Final approach to runway 23 at EGMC London Southend Airport was executed from the northeast, on a heading of 235.0°, at 4 nm and 1,748 ft agl.
Landing on runway 23 (runway length 1,739 m) was achieved with a threshold speed of 74 kt, touchdown distance of 77 m and touchdown speed of 70 kt. The touchdown rate was firm at minus 386 fpm and the touchdown point was offset 14.3 m from the centreline. Local weather reported temperature 20 °C, wind 23 kt from 280°, crosswind 17 kt and headwind 16 kt. Total landing distance measured 294 m, equal to 17 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 13.4 m.
The aircraft rolled out on runway 23, completing the landing roll within the 294 m distance recorded.
After landing, the Diamond DA62 taxied to the parking area; the taxi-in took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 248 nm, took 130 minutes, and consumed 81 kg of fuel.
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