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Flight Score
Smooth the climb
Enroute Climb scored 92.03 % — g force 0.00 to 0.25 g at 20 % was the weak point. Fixed, this flight scores 95.65 %.
See Enroute Climb
Start to finish · 10 stages, 9 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 1,786 m runway.
Rolled from 403 m in, drifted 2.8 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 31 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 704 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 917 m of runway left; then climbing at 800 fpm on average to 704 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.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 0.8 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 50 ft below 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.
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 267 m left of the centreline at 0.8 nm.
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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −7 kt and +4 kt on the approach speed of 70 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 12 ft, 42 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 6 ft, 44 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 279 m in, close to 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 160 fpm at the flare to 0 fpm at 5 ft, then back up to 110 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 64 kt, 6 kt under the 70 kt approach speed, and 56 kt at touchdown.
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 1,800 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.4 m of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° right of the track, 2.5° of bank.
Wind 269° at 2 kt · 2 kt tail · 0 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 279 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 0.24 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 56 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied to runway 26 at EGBP Cotswold Airport and commenced the departure roll. Takeoff was achieved after a ground run of 636 m, representing 36 % of the available runway, with liftoff occurring at 88 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 269°, no cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Climb began approximately one mile west of EGBP Cotswold Airport Kemble in Gloucestershire, England. The aircraft ascended from 1,119 ft asl to 924 ft asl, a gain of 195 ft, in one minute while covering less than one nautical mile.
Level cruise was initiated about one mile north-west of Crudwell in Wiltshire, England. The cruise segment lasted three minutes and spanned four nautical miles.
Landing was executed on runway 08 at EGBP Cotswold Airport, whose length is 1,800 m. The threshold height was satisfactory and the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 63 kt. Touchdown occurred 275 m down the runway at 56 kt with a smooth vertical rate of minus 108 fpm, and runway alignment at touchdown was perfect. Local weather at the time was 15 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 270°, no cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
During rollout the aircraft maintained very good alignment, completing the landing roll in a total distance of 525 m, which is 29 % of the runway length.
In total the flight covered 6 nm, taking 5 and consumed 9 kg of fuel.
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