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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 9.2°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final so speed bleeds back to 126 kt by the threshold, rather than carrying it in.
What happened: This flight crossed the threshold 13 kt above the target speed, then began the flare 6.7 ft above the normal band. Carrying speed like this across the threshold usually keeps the flare high and ends in a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 126 kt at the threshold.
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 · 15 stages, 12 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 209 kt, 29 kt above the 180 kt target, and lifted off at 227 kt 1.7 s later, the nose coming up at 2.9° a second.
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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 201 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 675 m of runway left.
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.
Plan view the roll down the 1,903 m runway.
Rolled from 41 m in, never more than 0.9 m off the centreline. Airborne 50 % 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.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off, wings more than 10° from level and speed more than 19 kt above the approach speed of 126 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, banked until 1.1 nm, high until 0.8 nm, sinking too fast until 0.6 nm, right of the centreline from 0.5 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 1° band in green.
High from 3.2 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm (up to 1,250 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 2,415 m right of the centreline at 3.2 nm, then inside it from 1.3 to 0.5 nm, then 25 m right of it from 0.5 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 3.2 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +110 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 4.9 points, mostly for starting the flare at 52 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
From 115 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 12 s, an average deceleration of 0.40 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 high, at 52 ft, 189 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 13 ft, 37 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 215 m in, 90 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 920 fpm at the flare to 340 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.8° 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 2,713 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.5 m right of the centreline.
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 215 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 345 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at LGMK Mykonos Island National Airport took less than a minute, covering a short distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The F-35B Lightning II then began its departure roll on runway 34, utilizing 50% of the available runway length to achieve liftoff at a speed of 228 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 28°C, with a headwind of 26 knots at 339°.
As the aircraft climbed away from Mykonos, it began its enroute climb, ascending from 519 feet above sea level to 28,479 feet in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles. The climb was characterized by a significant increase in altitude, with a total ascent of 27,960 feet. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, reducing its altitude from 28,476 feet to 22,441 feet in 3 minutes, while covering a distance of 26 nautical miles. The descent was followed by a series of enroute climbs and level cruises, with the aircraft eventually beginning its final descent towards LGMK Mykonos Island National Airport. The descent from 23,299 feet to -56 feet above sea level took 4 minutes, covering a distance of 29 nautical miles.
The F-35B Lightning II touched down before the threshold of runway 34, achieving a touchdown speed of 137 knots. However, the touchdown rate was heavy at -619 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was excessively misaligned by 120,440.2 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 668 meters, or 30% of the available runway length. Following touchdown, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking 16 minutes to cover a distance of 70 nautical miles. The total flight distance was 163 nautical miles, with the aircraft using 1,406 kilograms of fuel during the 26-minute flight.
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