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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Apply small rudder corrections at touchdown, aiming at a point at the far end of the runway, to stay on the centreline.
What happened: Touchdown drifted 28 ft off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 33 ft.
Watch for: Runway centreline: aircraft tracking directly over it through touchdown and rollout.
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.
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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 5.6° and 16.8°, and the speed between 95 kt and 120 kt.
Once clear of the runway the nose moved through a wide range, and the speed moved with it. Set the climb attitude, hold it and trim, and give the speed a few seconds to settle before correcting it with a degree or two of pitch. Chasing the airspeed with large pitch changes makes it wander more.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 6,960 ft runway.
Rolled from 205 ft in, never more than 4 ft off the centreline. Airborne 28 % 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 960 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,291 ft of runway left; gear up at 90 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,370 fpm on average to 960 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 43 kt above the approach speed of 85 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.0 nm, about 1,150 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before 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 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 170 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, 1,000 ft 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 20 ft 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.0 nm (up to +51 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 4,987 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 39 ft, 141 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 31 ft, 19 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,158 ft in, 158 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 4,987 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 470 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.0° on the way down. Into the flare at 84 kt, on the 85 kt approach speed, and 70 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 full 4,987 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 28 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 32 ft left at the widest. Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 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 1,158 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 69 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 8 s, an average deceleration of 0.26 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 departed from runway 09 at CYYJ Victoria International Airport. Rotation was achieved at 93 kt and the take-off roll was 1,994 ft, representing 29 % of the runway. Local weather was 50 °F with wind 8 kt from 130°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and a 7 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 40 seconds, averaging 1,217 fpm and reaching 120 kt at the top. The climb continued from 1,040 ft asl to 25,957 ft asl in 16 minutes, covering 54 nm while remaining overhead CYYJ. Level flight at 26,000 ft asl was held for 8 minutes, covering 43 nm south-east of Parksville.
Descent from 25,305 ft asl to 10,410 ft asl took 8 minutes over 40 nm, beginning north of Courtenay. A level segment at 10,200 ft asl lasted 6 minutes, covering 27 nm east of Vernon. The final descent from 9,965 ft asl to 1,472 ft asl required 22 minutes and 66 nm, starting north of CAK4 Woss.
On final approach to runway 11 at CYZT Port Hardy Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,475 ft agl to 15 ft agl in 146 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; speed was not met at one gate. Gear was lowered at 4,776 ft agl at 170 kt and final flap position 2 was selected at 988 ft agl at 136 kt.
Landing was made on runway 11, whose length is 4,987 ft. Threshold speed was 83 kt and the flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred at 70 kt, 1,157 ft down the runway, with a smooth rate of -122 fpm. The touchdown point was 28 ft off the centreline, and no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,861 ft, 37 % of the runway. Rollout alignment was slightly off by 33 ft from the centreline.
After landing, taxiing to the parking area took 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 238 nm in 74 minutes and consumed 579 lb of fuel.
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