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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Ease the nose up sooner to lift off at 110 kt instead of letting speed build on the ground.
What happened: The aircraft lifted off at 130 kt, 20 kt above the target liftoff speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 110 kt at liftoff
See Departure Roll
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 129 kt with 2.6° 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 1,099 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,472 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,670 fpm on average to 1,099 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 2,395 m runway.
Rolled from 129 m in, drifted 2.9 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 300 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off, wings more than 10° from level and speed more than 12 kt above the approach speed of 98 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: sinking too fast all the way, high all the way, fast all the way, banked until 0.6 nm, left of the centreline 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.
High from 1.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 1,290 ft over).
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 1,443 m right of the centreline at 1.8 nm, then 21 m left of it from 0.5 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 25 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +34 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
Fair landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 050° at 6 kt · 6 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 97 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 62 ft, 12 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 697 m in, 392 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 910 fpm at 63 ft to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.2° 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 2,483 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.5 m of it down 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 697 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.14 G arrival bounced 2 times.
The rest of the report
The Beechcraft King Air 350 taxied from the parking area to runway 03 at GCRR César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport, a taxi of 14 minutes covering 3 nm.
Take-off was on runway 03. The aircraft used 585 m of runway (24 % of runway) and lifted off at 130 kt. Local weather was 22 °C with wind 17 kt from 010°, giving a 5 kt crosswind and a 17 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 36 seconds at an average 1 478 fpm, reaching 179 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 1 171 ft asl to 28 162 ft asl in 36 minutes, covering 90 nm, beginning about 1 mile north-east of GCRR.
Cruise was level at 28 600 ft asl for 22 minutes, covering 101 nm, starting 81 nm north-west of La Santa.
Descent from 28 176 ft asl to 21 189 ft asl lasted 3 minutes over 15 nm, beginning 87 nm south-east of Canico. A further level segment at 20 600 ft asl lasted 9 minutes and covered 28 nm, starting 71 nm south-east of Agua de Pena.
The next descent from 20 584 ft asl to 3 016 ft asl took 25 minutes over 48 nm, beginning 45 nm south-east of Canical, with a brief level-off at 16 500 ft asl.
A level segment at 2 900 ft asl lasted 8 minutes covering 9 nm, starting 7 nm north of Canical.
Climb from 2 476 ft asl to 3 958 ft asl took 2 minutes over 4 nm, beginning 1 nm south-east of Machico.
Descent from 3 990 ft asl to 450 ft asl lasted 3 minutes over 3 nm, beginning 3 nm east of Canico.
Landing was on runway 05 at LPMA Madeira International Airport. The runway length is 2 483 m. Threshold height at 64 ft agl was above target and threshold speed was too high at 123 kt. The flare was described as a fair landing flare. Touchdown occurred 270 m beyond the touchdown zone at 102 kt, a little fast, with a perfect touchdown rate of minus 20 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. Two bounces were recorded on touchdown. Total landing distance was 1 277 m (51 % of runway) and runway rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather was 22 °C with wind 7 kt from 051°, giving a 1 kt crosswind and a 7 kt headwind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 303 nm in 109 minutes and used 626 kg of fuel.
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