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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 88 kt with 1.7° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 104 kt, 12 kt under its 116 kt target.
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 440 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 348 m of runway left; then climbing at 870 fpm on average to 440 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 1,269 m runway.
Rolled from 46 m in, drifted 8.8 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 47 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The flare strayed well off the target profile. The flare took all the sink out 34 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft then dropped the rest of the way, 850 fpm of sink coming back. Touchdown was 583 m past the threshold. Hold the attitude and let it settle rather than pushing - a balloon is almost always excess speed, so the fix is on the approach, not in the flare.
11 kt across from the left, which takes about 8° of crab to hold the centreline at 83 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, 7° of bank.
Wind 169° at 14 kt · 7 kt head · 11 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 84 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 38 ft; ballooned 8 ft from 27 ft. Touched down 583 m in, 278 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 320 fpm before coming down at 510 fpm to touch. The pitch barely changed.
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 2,218 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.3 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 1.4 m right by the end of 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 583 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.59 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
Departing from A05 Dixie US Forest Service Airport, the DA62 began its journey with a taxiing period of 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile to reach the runway. The departure roll commenced on runway 18 at A05, with a takeoff distance of 638 meters, utilizing 50% of the available runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 88 knots, overcoming a headwind of 1 knot and a crosswind of 5 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from the departure airport, it transitioned into an enroute climb, reaching an altitude of 12,812 feet above sea level in 7 minutes, covering a distance of 20 nautical miles. The climb commenced overhead A05 Dixie US Forest Service Airport, with an increase of 7,088 feet in altitude. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, lasting 52 minutes and covering 185 nautical miles, 5 miles east of U79 Chamberlain USFS Chamberlain Guard Station. The descent phase began 7 miles southeast of Ashton, with the aircraft descending from 12,887 feet to 6,236 feet above sea level in 10 minutes, covering 23 nautical miles.
The DA62 landed on runway 22 at KDIJ Driggs/Reed Memorial Airport, with a total landing distance of 1,099 meters, utilizing 50% of the available runway. The touchdown point was 116 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 83 knots, slightly above the target speed. The touchdown rate was heavy at -704 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 7.3 meters from the centerline. Following a taxiing period of 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile, the aircraft came to a stop, having completed a total flight distance of 230 nautical miles, utilizing 75 minutes of flight time and 67 kilograms of fuel.
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