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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 22 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 150 kt with 10.5° 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 793 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 888 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,020 fpm on average to 793 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 2,132 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 22 m at the widest, and lifted off 21 m left. 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 six 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° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 60 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° 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 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 12 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 134 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
Fair landing flare
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 128 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 119° at 9 kt · 6 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 121 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 40 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 1,612 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 49 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 643 m in, 338 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 1,612 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 1,040 fpm at 50 ft to 270 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.6° 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 1,612 m of the 3,602 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.9 m left of the centreline and drifted to 7.3 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.
Touched down 643 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 7 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then departed from runway 12 at LIPE Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, with a takeoff distance of 924 meters, which was 43% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 150 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 17°C, with a wind speed of 3 knots at a direction of 60°. The crosswind component was 3 knots, while the headwind component was 2 knots. The aircraft climbed from an initial altitude of 1,138 feet above sea level to a cruising altitude of 33,894 feet, an increase of 32,756 feet in 15 minutes, covering a distance of 86 nautical miles.
The enroute climb started over LIPE Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, and the aircraft continued to climb until it reached the cruising altitude. The enroute level cruise started 15 miles south-east of Lido di Jesolo, Italy, and lasted for 16 minutes, covering a distance of 113 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent from 34,001 feet above sea level to 16,010 feet, a decrease of 17,990 feet in 9 minutes, covering a distance of 59 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started again 1 mile west of Dienersdorf, Austria, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent from 15,993 feet above sea level to 8,296 feet, a decrease of 7,696 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 26 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise started once more 1 mile south-west of Katzelsdorf, Austria, and lasted for 3 minutes, covering a distance of 16 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its descent from 7,869 feet above sea level to 6,531 feet, a decrease of 1,338 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise started again 1 mile north of Winden am See, Austria, and lasted for 5 minutes, covering a distance of 19 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent from 6,567 feet above sea level to 5,106 feet, a decrease of 1,461 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started once more 1 mile south of Bockfliess, Austria, and lasted for 8 minutes, covering a distance of 30 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent from 4,851 feet above sea level to 2,019 feet, a decrease of 2,832 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 16 at LOWW Vienna International Airport was made from the north, with a heading of 164.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,418 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 16 was successful, with a touchdown point 227 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed was 128 knots, which was good, while the touchdown rate was fair at -232 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 8°C, with a wind speed of 9 knots at a direction of 119°. The crosswind component was 6 knots, while the headwind component was 6 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,531 meters, which was 42% of the runway length
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