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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 1.3° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 2.9° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 73 kt with 3.7° of pitch.
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 976 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,462 m of runway left; then climbing at 700 fpm on average to 976 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 3,284 m runway.
Rolled from 1,308 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.9 m right. Airborne 46 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then not again: left 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 20 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 15× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then 16 m left 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 41 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +12 kt on the approach speed of 82 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 180° at 10 kt · 9 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 66 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 34 ft, 16 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 324 m in, close to 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 340 fpm at 34 ft to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° 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 3,474 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 6.9 m right 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.
The 324 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took 12 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 17 at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport, UBBB. The takeoff distance was 252 meters, which is 8% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 73 knots.
As the aircraft climbed, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 29°C and wind speeds of 10 knots at 150°. The crosswind was 5 knots, and the headwind was 9 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile southwest of Biny Selo, a suburb of Baku City, Azerbaijan. The aircraft climbed from 982 feet above sea level to 2,773 feet, an increase of 1,791 feet in 2 minutes, covering 3 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 1 mile northwest of Hovsan, another suburb of Baku City, Azerbaijan, and lasted 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile. However, the aircraft then began another climb from 3,285 feet to 8,189 feet, an increase of 4,904 feet in 6 minutes, covering 9 nautical miles. This climb took place 1 mile northwest of Hovsan.
The enroute level cruise then started 5 miles southeast of Badamdar, a suburb of Baku City, Azerbaijan, and lasted 32 minutes, covering 86 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent from 7,564 feet to 6,097 feet, a decrease of 1,466 feet in 2 minutes, covering 4 nautical miles. This descent started 10 miles east of the Bygyr Airport Geoktschai, located in the Goychay Rayon, Azerbaijan.
The enroute level cruise started 6 miles northeast of the Bygyr Airport Geoktschai and lasted 7 minutes, covering 18 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent from 6,043 feet to 3,022 feet, a decrease of 3,021 feet in 3 minutes, covering 9 nautical miles. This descent started 1 mile north of the Gabala International Airport, UBBQ, located in the Qabala Rayon, Azerbaijan.
The final approach to runway 16 at the Gabala International Airport was made from the north, heading 167.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,285 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 16 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 322 meters, which is 17% of the runway length. The touchdown speed was 76 knots, and the touchdown rate was smooth at -110 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The local weather conditions during the landing were a temperature of 25°C and wind speeds of 13 knots at 180°. The crosswind was 3 knots, and the headwind was 12 knots. The total landing distance was 575 meters, and the runway rollout alignment was perfect. The total flight distance was 143 nautical miles, taking 71 minutes, and the aircraft used 43 kilograms of fuel.
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