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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 180 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 138 kt, 42 kt before the 180 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 180 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring the speed back to 130 kt well before the gate.
What happened: This flight was 91 kt fast at the stabilisation gate, and excess speed like this usually rides down the approach to cross the threshold still fast, as it did here at 146 kt against 130 kt.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 130 kt at the gate, 130 kt at the threshold
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 · 18 stages, 12 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 138 kt, 42 kt below the 180 kt target, and lifted off at 152 kt 1.3 s later, the nose coming up at 1.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 240 kt, 10 kt under its 250 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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 748 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 963 m of runway left; gear up at 242 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 3,040 fpm on average to 748 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,921 m runway.
Rolled from 78 m in, drifted 2.3 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 33 % 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: five 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. These checks are the approach's score.
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° and speed more than 16 kt above the approach speed of 130 kt.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
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 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 1° band in green.
High from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 1,280 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.
Inside the 1° band from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to 1.1 nm, then 125 m left of it from 1.1 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +117 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
The flare held the target profile well. The flare began at 83 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 146 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 008° at 1 kt · 1 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 149 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 44 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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.
Began the flare high, at 83 ft, 324 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 15 ft, 35 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 146 m in, 159 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 2,680 fpm at the flare to 300 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 7.3° 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 1,921 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.8 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.1 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 146 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 301 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The F-35 Lightning II taxied from the parking area to runway 01 at KJAC Jackson Hole Airport in six minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 01, the aircraft used 641 m of runway, representing 33 % of the available length, and lifted off at 152 kt. Local weather at the time was 5 °C with wind calm from 357°, no cross-wind and no head-wind.
Level cruise commenced overhead KJAC and was maintained for one minute, during which the aircraft traveled four nautical miles.
A go-around was executed on runway 01 at an altitude of 57 ft agl.
A second go-around followed on the same runway, this time at 34 ft agl.
The final approach to runway 01 was flown, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
During the descent phase the aircraft dropped from 1,533 ft agl to 46 ft agl in twenty seconds.
Landing on runway 01 occurred with a runway length of 1,921 m; the threshold height was good and the threshold speed was a little below target at 146 kt. Touchdown distance measured 148 m and touchdown speed was 136 kt, both described as good. The touchdown rate was hard at minus 468 fpm, and the touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.1 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 4 °C with wind calm from 357°, no cross-wind and no head-wind. Total landing distance was 1,206 m, representing 63 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in four minutes, covering one nautical mile.
In total the flight covered 29 nm, lasted eleven minutes, and consumed 1,263 kg of fuel.
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