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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use smooth aileron to roll the wings level in the first climb segment, holding bank angle near wings-level instead of letting it build to 2.3°.
What happened: The wings held 2.3° of bank through the first climb segment and had drifted to 2.5° by the second - this early wing-level drift usually carries through into a larger bank excursion later in the climb.
Watch for: Watch the attitude indicator's bank pointer and keep it at wings level throughout the climb.
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 82 kt with 4.7° 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 597 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 921 m of runway left; then climbing at 920 fpm on average to 597 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 1,763 m runway.
Rolled from 87 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.4 m left, in 6 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 35 % 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.
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: no landing flap set, sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: banked until 1.6 nm, no landing flap until 1.5 nm, sinking too fast until 1.3 nm, left of the centreline until 1.2 nm, slow from 1.1 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 2.0 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 340 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 262 m left of the centreline at 2.0 nm, then inside the band from 1.2 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 44 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 26 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 2.0 nm, where the final began, to 1.1 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −13 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 4° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 180° at 3 kt · 1 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 71 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.23 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 741 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 234 m in, 71 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 741 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 grew from 50 fpm at 16 ft to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.4° 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 full 741 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.8 m right of the centreline and drifted to 5.6 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.
The 234 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 26 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The aircraft, a DA62, then departed from runway 08 at KBUR Hollywood Burbank Airport. The takeoff distance was 549 meters, which accounted for 31% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 83 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius and winds of 8 knots at 197 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 8 knots and a tailwind of 2 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting overhead KBUR Hollywood Burbank Airport, where it climbed from 1,353 feet above sea level to 2,415 feet above sea level, an increase of 1,062 feet in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 2 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, this time starting 2 miles southwest of La Canada Flintridge, where it climbed from 2,443 feet above sea level to 3,405 feet above sea level, an increase of 963 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, this time lasting 5 minutes and covering a distance of 11 nautical miles, starting 1 mile east of Pasadena. The aircraft then began its descent, starting overhead Hacienda Heights, where it descended from 3,398 feet above sea level to 682 feet above sea level, a decrease of 2,717 feet in 4 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 24 at KFUL Fullerton Municipal Airport was made from the east, heading 265.0 degrees at 2 nautical miles and 577 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown distance of 233 meters, which was good, and a touchdown speed of 70 knots, which was also good. The touchdown rate was smooth at -149 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 24 degrees Celsius and winds of 3 knots at 180 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 3 knots and a headwind of 1 knot. The total landing distance was 447 meters, which accounted for 60% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also very good.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 35 nautical miles and took 21 minutes to complete, using 9 kilograms of fuel.
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