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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
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 8.1 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated late
The nose came up at 82 kt, 14 kt after the 68 kt rotate speed.
The pull started after the rotate speed had gone by. Bring the airspeed into the scan as it approaches the rotate speed, so the pull starts on the number rather than when you notice it has passed.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 956 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 551 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 123 m of runway left; then climbing at 700 fpm on average to 551 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
One stabilised approach gate: five 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: speed more than 22 kt above the approach speed of 73 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.5 nm, about 220 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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.
Low from 4 nm to 3.1 nm (up to 1,170 ft under), 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 2,611 m left of the centreline, 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 0.5 nm (up to +55 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 21 ft. Touched down 385 m in, 80 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 400 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.4° on the way down. Into the flare at 74 kt, on the 73 kt approach speed, and 58 kt at touchdown.
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 2,501 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3 m left of the centreline and drifted to 7.9 m left on the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 224° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 1 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 385 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 59 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to the runway for 47 minutes, covering a distance of 5 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 09L at EDPA Aalen Heidenheim Elchingen Airfield, the take-off run was 633 m, representing 66 % of the available runway, and liftoff was achieved at 84 kt. Ambient conditions were 19 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 224°, a cross-wind component of 2 kt and a tail-wind component of 2 kt.
The first en-route climb commenced 1 mile north-west of Neresheim, rising from 2,541 ft asl to 4,230 ft asl - a gain of 1,689 ft - over 4 minutes while covering 8 nm.
Subsequently, an en-route descent began 2 miles south of Bopfingen, descending from 4,173 ft asl to 3,692 ft asl - a loss of 481 ft - in 2 minutes and traversing 4 nm.
A second climb started overhead Forheim, increasing altitude from 3,686 ft asl to 5,008 ft asl, an ascent of 1,323 ft achieved in 3 minutes while covering 7 nm.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise segment overhead Bissingen, maintaining altitude for 13 minutes and covering 33 nm.
A further descent was initiated 2 miles south of Karlskron, dropping from 4,782 ft asl to 2,327 ft asl - a decrease of 2,455 ft - over 5 minutes and spanning 12 nm.
A short level cruise followed 1 mile north of Baar-Ebenhausen, lasting 4 minutes and covering 9 nm.
The final approach to runway 27 at ETSN Neuburg Air Base was flown from the east, on a heading of 271.0° at 1 nm and 375 ft agl.
Touchdown on runway 27 occurred at a speed of 58 kt, with a touchdown distance of 382 m and a touchdown rate of minus 100 fpm; the threshold speed was recorded at 74 kt and runway alignment was very good. Weather at the time was 19 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 225°, a cross-wind component of 2 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
The total landing roll measured 810 m, equivalent to 32 % of the runway length, and the rollout alignment was offset by 8.4 m from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In summary, the flight covered 80 nm, required 38 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 27 kg of fuel.
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