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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 100 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 100 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, well above the normal profile. The touchdown point was also long at 685 m against a 457 m target, a pattern often seen after high threshold crossings.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 107 kt, on the 108 kt target, and lifted off at 114 kt 1.6 s later, the nose coming up at 2.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 163 kt, 17 kt over its 146 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 919 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,325 m of runway left; gear up at 44 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,660 fpm on average to 919 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 2,177 m runway.
Rolled from 37 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.1 m left, in 9 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 30 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 1.0 nm, then not again: slow from 1.0 nm and right of the centreline from 0.4 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 80 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 8× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then 45 m right of it from 0.4 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 52 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 31 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.0 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −14 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 tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 685 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
4 kt across from the right, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 79 kt. Touched down with the nose 10° into wind, wings level.
Wind 359° at 14 kt · 13 kt head · 4 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 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 100 ft, 50 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 37 ft. Touched down 685 m in, 380 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 820 fpm at the flare to 100 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 6.0° 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 1,903 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.8 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.9 m right 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.
Touched down 685 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Kefallinia Airport, Greece, took approximately 6 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began its departure roll on runway 32, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 115 knots. The takeoff distance of 673 meters accounted for 31% of the runway length. Local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 25°C, with a wind speed of 13 knots from a direction of 279°, resulting in a crosswind and headwind of 9 knots each.
As the aircraft climbed away from Kefallinia Island, it began its enroute climb, reaching an altitude of 31,048 feet above sea level in 15 minutes, covering a distance of 66 nautical miles. The climb was characterized by a significant increase in altitude, with a total ascent of 30,033 feet. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, lasting 14 minutes and covering 101 nautical miles, before beginning its descent towards Salamina, Greece. The descent phase saw the aircraft lose 27,950 feet in altitude over a period of 19 minutes, covering 103 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a series of short level cruise phases, before commencing its final approach to runway 34 at Mykonos Island National Airport.
The final approach was made from the south, with the aircraft heading 341.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,246 feet above ground level. The landing was executed on runway 34, with a total landing distance of 938 meters, accounting for 49% of the runway length. The touchdown point was 253 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 78 knots and a touchdown rate of -99 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was also slightly off-centre. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, taking less than 1 minute and covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 289 nautical miles, with a flight time of 62 minutes and a fuel consumption of 372 kilograms.
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