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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Maintain the centreline
See Departure Roll
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 113 kt with 4.7° 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 975 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,529 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,390 fpm on average to 975 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 2,514 m runway.
Rolled from 28 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 8.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 8.9 m left, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 30 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 360 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 1,635 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 1.7 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 78 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 48 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +36 kt on the approach speed of 98 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 3 kt · 3 kt tail · 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 96 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 34 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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 31 ft, 19 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 316 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 360 fpm at 28 ft to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° 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 1,891 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.2 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 316 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with taxiing from the parking to the runway at LOWK Klagenfurt Airport, which took 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Cockspur PH100, then departed from runway 28R, taking off with a distance of 752 meters, which was 30% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 114 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were a temperature of 7 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 10 knots at 240 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 7 knots and a headwind of 7 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile north of Klagenfurt am Woerthersee, and climbed from 2,495 feet above sea level to 23,382 feet above sea level, an increase of 20,887 feet in 10 minutes, covering 42 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise, starting 4 miles northwest of Goeriach, and lasted for 3 minutes, covering 21 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, starting 1 mile east of Schwarzach im Pongau, and descended from 23,371 feet above sea level to 12,981 feet above sea level, a decrease of 10,389 feet in 9 minutes, covering 49 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting 2 miles northeast of Alpbach, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, starting 1 mile northwest of Wiesing, and climbed from 13,030 feet above sea level to 13,569 feet above sea level, an increase of 538 feet in 2 minutes, covering 8 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting 4 miles north of Gnadenwald, and lasted for 5 minutes, covering 27 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another descent, starting 1 mile east of Nassereith, and descended from 13,566 feet above sea level to 13,076 feet above sea level, a decrease of 490 feet in 2 minutes, covering 8 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, starting 4 miles northwest of Tarrenz, and lasted for 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began another descent, starting 3 miles northwest of Tarrenz, and descended from 12,750 feet above sea level to 2,570 feet above sea level, a decrease of 10,180 feet in 8 minutes, covering 25 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 08 at LOWI Innsbruck Airport was from the west, heading 83.0 degrees at 2 nautical miles and 657 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 08 was successful, with a touchdown distance of 315 meters, a touchdown speed of 90 knots, and a smooth touchdown rate of -133 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 3 knots at 270 degrees.
The total landing distance was 1,293 meters, which was 68% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The taxiing to the parking from the runway took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 195 nautical miles, taking 56 minutes, and the aircraft used 326 kilograms of fuel.
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