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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use coordinated aileron input to level the wings and hold bank angle close to wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the initial climb, your average bank angle drifted to 2.8°.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, bank angle near wings-level
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections to track the centreline, aiming at a point on the far end of the runway.
What happened: Heading drifted off the extended centreline during the final approach segment.
Watch for: Heading indicator against the runway centreline track.
See Arrival Final 1
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 15 stages, 13 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 86 kt with 5.9° 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 872 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 1,161 m of runway left; then climbing at 730 fpm on average to 872 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 1,991 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 3.8 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 23 % 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.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high until 0.4 nm, slow until 0.4 nm, left of the centreline from 2.0 nm and sinking too fast from 0.6 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.
On the glideslope from 2.5 nm, where the final began, to 0.8 nm, then high to 0.4 nm (up to 230 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 639 m right of the centreline at 2.5 nm, then 428 m left of it from 2.0 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 43 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 2.5 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm, then slow to 0.4 nm (up to −9 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
Good landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 160° at 2 kt · 2 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 12 ft, 38 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 80 m in, 225 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 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 730 fpm at 12 ft to 180 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.2° 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 1,991 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.7 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 10 m left 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 80 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.25 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking area to the runway, which took approximately 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Beechcraft Baron G58, then departed from runway 33 at VQPR Paro International Airport. The takeoff distance was 494 meters, which is 25% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 86 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 13 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 160 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 0 knots and a tailwind of 2 knots. The aircraft climbed to an altitude of 10,357 feet above sea level, an increase of 2,166 feet from the initial altitude of 8,191 feet. This climb took 2 minutes and covered a distance of 5 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its descent 5 miles northwest of Paro, Bhutan. The descent took 3 minutes and covered a distance of 5 nautical miles, during which the aircraft lost 2,378 feet in altitude, descending from 10,328 feet to 7,950 feet above sea level.
The final approach to runway 15 at VQPR Paro International Airport was made from the north, with the aircraft heading 157.0 degrees at an altitude of 599 feet above ground level and a distance of 1 nautical mile from the runway. The landing was made on the runway, which had a length of 1,991 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was slightly below the target speed at 74 knots.
The touchdown distance was good at 80 meters, and the touchdown speed was 70 knots, which was also good. However, the touchdown rate was hard at -457 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 9.7 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 159 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 0 knots and a headwind of 2 knots.
The total landing distance was 357 meters, which is 18% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 10.4 meters from the centerline. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking area took less than 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 15 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 10 minutes. The aircraft used 4 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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