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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 24 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 24 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 24 ft to touchdown.
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 · 25 stages, 17 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 123 kt with 6.2° 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 984 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 199 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,160 fpm on average to 984 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 1,240 m runway.
Rolled from 56 m in, drifted 2.9 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. 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 seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
At the 1,000 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.5 to 1.3 nm, then not again: fast from 1.3 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° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 4 nm to 2.3 nm (up to 530 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 27 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 24 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Outside the speed band 4 times; furthest +35 kt at 4.0 nm.
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
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 84 kt. Touched down with the nose 8° into wind, wings level.
Wind 359° at 9 kt · 6 kt head · 6 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 80 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.28 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 79 ft, 29 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,115 m in, 810 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 710 fpm at 78 ft to 100 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 6.2° 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 3,421 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.3 m right of the centreline and drifted to 9.9 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 1,115 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 11 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Black Square King Air 350, then departed from runway 36 at RPVO Ormoc Airport. The takeoff distance was 750 meters, which is 60% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 123 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 4 knots from a direction of 359 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 0 knots and a headwind of 4 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile north of RPVO Ormoc Airport, and climbed from an altitude of 1,094 feet above sea level to 4,107 feet above sea level, an increase of 3,012 feet, in just 2 minutes and covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 4 miles west of RPVO Ormoc Airport and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting overhead Isabel, and descended from an altitude of 4,104 feet above sea level to 2,453 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,651 feet, in 3 minutes and covering a distance of 17 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 2 miles northwest of Consuelo and lasted for 15 minutes, covering a distance of 33 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 04R at RPVM Mactan Cebu International Airport was made from the southwest, heading 45.0 degrees, at an altitude of 3 nautical miles and 1,755 feet above ground level.
However, the aircraft was required to perform a go-around at an altitude of 104 feet above ground level. The aircraft then landed on runway 04R at RPVM Mactan Cebu International Airport, which has a length of 3,421 meters. The threshold height at 79 feet above ground level was well above the target, and the threshold speed was also well above the target at 117 knots.
The touchdown point was 677 meters beyond the touchdown zone, but the touchdown speed of 84 knots was good, and the touchdown rate of -69 feet per minute was excellent. The runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 26 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 8 knots from a direction of 0 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 5 knots and a headwind of 6 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,373 meters, which is 40% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 11.2 meters from the centerline. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took just 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 76 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 42 minutes, with a fuel consumption of 324 kilograms.
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