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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Ease the nose up sooner to lift off at 72 kt instead of letting speed build on the ground.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 102 kt, 30 kt above the target liftoff speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 72 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 325 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 183 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 101 kt with 3.2° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 134 kt, 10 kt over its 124 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 631 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 294 m of runway left; then climbing at 830 fpm on average to 631 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,408 m runway.
Rolled from 71 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 19 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.2 m left. Airborne 63 % 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.
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: speed more than 19 kt above the approach speed of 63 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, about 260 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 3.5 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 540 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,224 m left of the centreline at 3.5 nm, then inside the band from 2.7 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 3.5 nm, where the final began, to 0.6 nm (up to +46 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
Touchdown
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.3 points, mostly for the nose going up and down 3 times.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 009° at 5 kt · 4 kt head · 2 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 63 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 25 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 760 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 32 ft, 130 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 10 ft, 40 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 117 m in, 188 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 760 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 610 fpm at the flare to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.1° 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 full 760 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.8 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.9 m right at the widest.
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 117 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 208B taxied from the parking area to runway 26 at LOXT Brumowski Air Base in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 26 with a take-off distance of 900 m, which was 64 % of the runway. Liftoff occurred at 102 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 12 °C, wind 8 kt from 272°, giving a 1 kt crosswind and an 8 kt headwind.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 43 seconds, averaging 793 fpm and reaching 144 kt at the top of the climb.
Climb continued from 1,185 ft asl to 12,009 ft asl in 12 minutes, covering 27 nm, beginning 1 mile south-east of Tulln.
Level flight was maintained at 12,000 ft asl for 45 minutes, covering 131 nm, starting overhead Lilienfeld.
Descent began from 11,999 ft asl to 1,313 ft asl in 14 minutes, covering 34 nm, starting 1 mile south-east of Cezsoca, with a brief level-off at 2,700 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 03 at LIPD Udine-Campoformido Air Base descended from 1,384 ft agl to 24 ft agl in 128 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration on final was flap position 2 at 740 ft agl, speed 99 kt.
Landing on runway 03, runway length 760 m, had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was well above target at 70 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 117 m down the runway at 68 kt, which was noted as too fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 184 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 4.9 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 9 °C, wind 5 kt from 009°, giving a 2 kt crosswind and a 4 kt headwind. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 691 m, 91 % of the runway, and runway rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 198 nm in 80 minutes and used 189 kg of fuel.
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