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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 6.4 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
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.
Lifted off at 161 kt with 6.7° 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 908 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 596 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,840 fpm on average to 908 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 3,288 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 6.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.3 m left, in 8 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 65 % 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 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 300 ft gate: wings more than 10° from level.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.8 nm, about 280 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 300 ft gate. The last to settle was the wings.
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 3.1° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 60 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: 3.1° here, which is about 330 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 567 m left of the centreline at 1.7 nm, then inside the band from 1.1 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +5 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 137 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
Great landing flare
10 kt across from the right, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 140 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 159° at 17 kt · 13 kt head · 10 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 124 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 23 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 363 m in, 58 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.
The sink went from 450 fpm at 30 ft to 270 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 2,131 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.5 m right at the widest.
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 363 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (KBHM), the CRJ900 began its journey on runway 24. The aircraft accelerated down the 2,138-meter runway, utilizing 65% of its length, and lifted off at a speed of 161 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and a gentle tailwind of 3 knots, with a crosswind of 10 knots from a direction of 130 degrees.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it transitioned into an enroute climb, which began approximately 1 mile northeast of Birmingham. The climb phase saw the aircraft ascend from an initial altitude of 1,616 feet above sea level to a cruising altitude of 35,013 feet, a vertical gain of 33,397 feet, in just 13 minutes. The enroute level cruise phase followed, lasting 18 minutes and covering a distance of 489 nautical miles, before the aircraft began its descent towards its destination. The descent phase saw the aircraft lose 30,989 feet in altitude in 16 minutes, covering 164 nautical miles, before entering a brief level cruise phase near the Financial District in New York. The final descent phase began overhead Eastchester, with the aircraft touching down on runway 13 at LaGuardia Airport (KLGA) after a total flight distance of 836 nautical miles.
The landing phase was notable for a slightly high threshold speed of 145 knots, but the touchdown distance of 365 meters was within acceptable limits. The touchdown speed of 140 knots was a little fast, but the runway touchdown alignment was perfect. The total landing distance of 1,089 meters, which accounted for 51% of the runway length, was also within acceptable limits. Following a smooth rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in just 1 minute, covering a short distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight duration was 63 minutes, with the aircraft consuming 3,893 kilograms of fuel during the journey.
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