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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 2.1°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Lower the gear before the stabilisation gate, not after.
What happened: Gear was not down at the stabilisation gates on approach.
Watch for: Gear indicator: down and locked before the gate
See Arrival Approach
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 · 13 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.
Lifted off at 135 kt with 7.4° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 165 kt, 23 kt under its 188 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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 642 ft.
Reached 35 ft 133 m past the runway end; gear up at 16 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,850 fpm on average to 642 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 2,438 m runway.
Rolled from 1,862 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.7 m left. Airborne 97 % of the way down the runway, past 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: gear still up and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: gear up all the way, right of the centreline from 1.5 nm, fast from 1.3 nm, high from 0.9 nm and sinking too fast from 0.3 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.9 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 160 ft over).
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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.5 nm, then 78 m right of it from 1.5 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 3.6 nm, then fast to 3.2 nm (up to +32 kt), then inside the band to 1.3 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +30 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 wandered off the target profile. Crossing the threshold 27 kt above target, the flare took all the sink out 38 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft then dropped the rest of the way, 189 fpm of sink coming back. Touchdown was 1,209 m past the threshold. Hold the attitude and let it settle rather than pushing - that excess speed is what turns a normal flare into a balloon, so the fix is on the approach, not in the flare.
7 kt across from the right, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 136 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, 2° of bank.
Wind 219° at 8 kt · 3 kt tail · 7 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 164 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 16 s, an average deceleration of 0.48 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 1,925 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 88 ft, 38 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 45 ft. Touched down 1,209 m in, 905 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 1,925 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 140 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at 38 ft, then back up to 580 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,925 m of the 2,102 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9 m left of the centreline and drifted to 14 m left on 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 1,209 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.74 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna Longitude departed Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (KASE) on runway 15, employing a takeoff run of 2,351 m which represented 96 % of the available runway. Liftoff was achieved at 136 kt. Ambient conditions were 19 °C with a wind from 149° at 6 kt, including a 1 kt crosswind component and a 6 kt headwind.
Climb commenced one mile west of Aspen, where the aircraft accelerated from 8,522 ft asl to 34,170 ft asl, a gain of 25,648 ft. The ascent was completed in 9 minutes while covering 50 nm.
Level cruise began seven miles south-west of Aspen and persisted for 9 minutes, during which 71 nm were traversed.
Descent was initiated nine miles west of Gunnison, descending from 34,634 ft asl to 9,768 ft asl, a loss of 24,865 ft. The descent lasted 8 minutes and spanned 72 nm.
The final approach to runway 09 at Telluride Regional Airport (KTEX) was executed from the west, on a heading of 107.0° at 2 nm and 726 ft agl.
Landing on runway 09 occurred with a runway length of 2,102 m; the threshold height of 88 ft agl was above the intended value and the threshold speed was 150 kt. Touchdown was recorded at 136 kt, using more than 50 % of the runway and producing a hard touchdown rate of minus 424 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 10.4 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 21 °C with a wind from 219° at 14 kt, a 13 kt crosswind component and a 6 kt tailwind. Total landing distance measured 1,805 m, equivalent to 86 % of the runway, and the rollout was laterally misaligned by 14.3 m from the centreline.
After rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in less than 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 197 nm, required 27 minutes, and consumed 641 kg of fuel.
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