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Departure
Smooth your pitch and roll inputs during the climb so the g force stays close to 1.3 g instead of spiking.
What happened: During the third climb segment the g force swung to 1.3 g, well outside the steady level flight band.
Watch for: Watch the g-meter and keep it settled near the normal one g climb band.
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 12 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 13 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 21 stages, 19 scored
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,888 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,888 m of the 3,051 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 617 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 28L at KSFO, a movement that required 17 minutes and covered 5 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 28L, the aircraft used 1,175 m of runway, representing 35 % of the available length, and achieved liftoff at 151 kt; ambient temperature was 21 °C with wind 12 kt from 259°, a 7 kt cross-wind component and a 9 kt head-wind.
Climb commenced overhead San Bruno, where the airplane rose from 964 ft asl to 37 000 ft asl, an altitude gain of 36 037 ft achieved in 20 minutes while traversing 127 nm.
The first level cruise began 6 mi southwest of KHGT (Tusi Ahp) and lasted 7 minutes, during which 51 nm were covered.
Descent started 7 mi west of Avila Beach, with the aircraft descending from 37 002 ft asl to 26 705 ft asl, a loss of 10 297 ft in 5 minutes over a distance of 41 nm.
A second cruise segment originated 8 mi northeast of Los Alamos, persisting for 2 minutes and covering 9 nm.
The following descent began 5 mi northeast of Los Olivos, reducing altitude from 26 595 ft asl to 26 011 ft asl, a decrease of 583 ft in 2 minutes across 8 nm.
A third cruise phase started 5 mi east of 0CA3 Crawford Airport, lasting 2 minutes and encompassing 9 nm.
Descent resumed 3 mi northeast of Goleta, with the aircraft dropping from 25 570 ft asl to 3 491 ft asl, a loss of 22 078 ft in 10 minutes while covering 58 nm.
The fourth cruise segment began 20 mi north of KNSI (San Nicolas Island) and continued for 11 minutes, during which 34 nm were flown.
A final descent started 11 mi southeast of KNSI, bringing the airplane from 3 496 ft asl to 1 496 ft asl, a reduction of 1 999 ft in 4 minutes over 7 nm.
On final approach to runway 30 at KNSI, the aircraft approached from the southeast on a heading of 315.0°, intercepting the glide path at 4 nm and 1 010 ft agl.
Landing on runway 30 was completed with a threshold height of 59 ft agl slightly above target and a threshold speed of 126 kt slightly below target; touchdown occurred 192 m beyond the touchdown zone at 126 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 244 fpm and a lateral deviation of 5.4 m from the centreline. Ambient conditions were 21 °C, wind 27 kt from 299°, a 6 kt cross-wind and a 26 kt head-wind.
The rollout distance measured 1 799 m, representing 59 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s alignment during rollout was offset by 13.0 m from the centreline.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering a distance of 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 356 nm, required 77 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 6 817 kg of fuel.
The aircraft made a final approach to runway 30 at KNSI San Nicolas Island Nolf Airport from the south-east, heading 315.0° at 4 nm and 1,010 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
At threshold the height of 59 ft agl was slightly above target and the threshold speed of 126 kt was slightly below target.
Touchdown occurred 192 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 126 kt that was judged good. The vertical rate was fair at minus 244 fpm and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.4 m from centreline.
The total landing distance was 1,799 m, representing 59 % of the 3,051 m runway, and the rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 13.0 m from centreline. Local weather was 21 °C with wind 27 kt from 299°, including a 6 kt crosswind component and a 26 kt headwind component.
The 90.3 % score indicates a solid performance; refining the threshold height to meet the target and correcting the centreline alignment during rollout will further improve precision.
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