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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 1.7° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 3° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 20 stages, 18 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 117 kt with 2.3° 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 947 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 596 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,650 fpm on average to 947 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 1,501 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.5 m off the centreline. Airborne 43 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 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 3.1° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 150 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: 3.1° here, which is about 330 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 all the way from 4 nm, never more than 135 m off the centreline.
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 51 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 30 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −5 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 101 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
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 86 kt. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, away from the wind, wings level.
Wind 290° at 8 kt · 4 kt head · 6 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 80 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 33 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 28 ft, 22 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 410 m in, 105 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 510 fpm at 30 ft to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.0° 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 1,906 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 8.9 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 410 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Cockspur PH100, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at LIMW Aosta Corrado Gex Airport. This process took 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 09, and the takeoff distance was 671 meters, which accounted for 45% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 117 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 17°C temperature and a wind speed of 21 knots at 89°. The crosswind was minimal at 2 knots, while the headwind was 21 knots. The enroute climb started overhead Quart in Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, Italy, and the aircraft ascended from 2,785 feet above sea level to 37,980 feet above sea level, an increase of 35,195 feet in 23 minutes, covering a distance of 109 nautical miles.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, starting 2 miles north of Bettola in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. This phase of the flight lasted 42 minutes and covered 446 nautical miles. The enroute descent began 1 mile west of LITW Aviosuperficie Esperti San Donaci in Puglia, Italy, and the aircraft descended from 38,019 feet above sea level to 2,775 feet above sea level, a decrease of 35,244 feet in 20 minutes, covering a distance of 117 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting 2 miles southwest of Argyrades in the Ionian Islands, Greece. This phase of the flight lasted only 2 minutes and covered 4 nautical miles. The enroute descent began 1 mile northwest of Kouspades in the Ionian Islands, Greece, and the aircraft descended from 2,461 feet above sea level to 1,398 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,063 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 34 at LGKR Corfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport took place from the south, with the aircraft heading 346.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,389 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 34 was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 86 knots and a touchdown rate of -100 feet per minute. The touchdown distance was 410 meters, and the runway touchdown alignment was perfect.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 15°C temperature and a wind speed of 7 knots at 290°. The crosswind was 6 knots, while the headwind was 4 knots. The total landing distance was 1,237 meters, which accounted for 65% of the runway. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 10.7 meters from the centreline.
The taxiing from the runway to the parking area took only 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 688 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 98 minutes. The aircraft used 658 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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