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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 103 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 90 kt against a target of 103 kt, running 13 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 103 kt.
Arrival
Use small rudder inputs against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout.
What happened: During the rollout the aircraft drifted 9.7 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
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 70 kt, 4 kt below the 74 kt target, and lifted off at 79 kt 2.3 s later, the nose coming up at 1.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 90 kt, 13 kt under its 103 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 999 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,536 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,140 fpm on average to 999 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 3,185 m runway.
Rolled from 119 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.3 m left. Airborne 13 % 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.
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: gear still up.
At the 500 ft gate: gear still up.
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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 10 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 41 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −5 kt and +3 kt on the approach speed of 82 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 held the target profile well. The flare began at 6 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 436 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 300° at 5 kt · 4 kt head · 2 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 68 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 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; began the flare late, at 6 ft. Touched down 436 m in, 131 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 190 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.2° 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 3,215 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.7 m left of the centreline and drifted to 10 m left on the rollout, back to 1.4 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.
The 436 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The pilot taxied from the parking to runway 27R at EDDV Hannover Airport, a movement that lasted 4 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Takeoff was performed on runway 27R with a takeoff roll of 443 m, which is 14 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 70 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 8 °C, wind 3 kt from 269°, giving a headwind component of 3 kt and no cross-wind.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 50 seconds, averaging 1,110 fpm and reaching 91 kt at the top of the climb.
Climb continued from 1,191 ft asl to 4,996 ft asl in 5 minutes, covering 12 nm. The climb began about 1 mile west of EDDV Hannover Airport and included a brief level-off at 4,200 ft asl.
Cruise was level at 5,000 ft asl for 25 minutes, covering 64 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-west of Lindwedel.
Descent from 5,002 ft asl to 1,335 ft asl took 9 minutes and covered 19 nm, starting overhead Mechtersen, with brief level-offs at 3,900 ft asl and 3,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 33 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport began with a descent from 1,341 ft agl to 35 ft agl in 190 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level; the gear-down check was not met. The aircraft was in final flap position 2 at 1,480 ft agl and was flying 88 kt.
Landing on runway 33 was performed with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 83 kt. The flare was described as great, although it started late. Touchdown occurred at 74 kt, with a touchdown distance of 436 m and a touchdown rate of minus 95 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.7 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,269 m, representing 39 % of the runway length of 3,215 m. Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 9.7 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 10 °C, wind 5 kt from 300°, giving a headwind component of 4 kt and a cross-wind component of 3 kt.
After landing, the pilot taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total distance of 102 nm, lasted 50 minutes, and used 36 kg of fuel.
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