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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 21 stages, 14 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 152 kt with 3.0° 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 841 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 636 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,160 fpm on average to 841 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 2,447 m runway.
Rolled from 1,183 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 9 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.8 m right. Airborne 59 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 30 kt above the approach speed of 119 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.0 to 0.5 nm, then not again: slow from 0.5 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 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 ft below 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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 29 m off the centreline.
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 30 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.0 nm (up to +46 kt), then inside the band to 0.5 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −6 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
Very poor landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 0 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 108 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.20 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 47 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 612 m in, 307 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 370 fpm at 47 ft to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.3° 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 2,447 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 13 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.
Touched down 612 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 24 at Cologne Bonn Airport (EDDK). The aircraft, a C750, accelerated down the 2,447-meter runway, covering 1,447 meters or 59% of the runway length before taking off. The liftoff speed was 152 knots, and the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15°C and a gentle headwind of 1 knot from the northwest.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb 1 mile southwest of EDDK. The climb started from an altitude of 1,132 feet above sea level and reached 3,173 feet in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. This rapid ascent was a testament to the aircraft's impressive climb capabilities.
After completing the enroute climb, the aircraft leveled off and entered a cruise phase, flying 1 mile north of Niederkassel. This level cruise lasted for 16 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 53 nautical miles. The cruise phase was a period of steady and efficient flight, allowing the aircraft to conserve fuel and maintain a comfortable altitude.
As the aircraft approached the end of its flight, it began its final approach to runway 24 at EDDK. The approach was made from the northeast, with the aircraft flying at a heading of 247.0° and an altitude of 1,019 feet above ground level. However, the pilot decided to execute a go-around at an altitude of just 27 feet above ground level, likely due to a change in weather conditions or a loss of situational awareness.
The aircraft then re-established its approach and landed safely on runway 24. The touchdown point was 189 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 108 knots, which was within the acceptable range. However, the touchdown rate was slightly higher than ideal at -218 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the local weather conditions remained the same, with a temperature of 15°C and a gentle headwind of 1 knot from the northwest.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking 17 minutes to cover a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 144 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 42 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 782 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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