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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
On the roll, make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline within 12 m.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted off the centreline by 12 m, and excess bank then carried through all three climb segments. A drifted roll like this usually leads into wandering bank angle through the climb.
Watch for: Watch the heading indicator and runway centreline during the roll, and the attitude indicator for wings level through the climb.
See Departure RollDeparture Climb 1Departure Climb 2Departure Climb 3
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming through the flare so the sink does not return at 209 fpm.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink, but then the sink returned before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch the VSI in the flare and keep arrested sink from returning before touchdown at 208 fpm.
See Arrival Landing
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 124 kt with 7.6° 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 948 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,676 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,180 fpm on average to 948 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 2,812 m runway.
Rolled from 259 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 11 m at the widest, and lifted off 12 m left, in 14 kn of crosswind from the left. 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. 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 0.6 to 0.3 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.3 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 70 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. 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 31× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 12 m left of it from 0.3 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 57 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 34 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Outside the speed band 3 times; furthest −9 kt at 0.9 nm.
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
Very good landing flare
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 104 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 049° at 17 kt · 16 kt head · 3 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 90 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 10 s, an average deceleration of 0.32 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 485 m in, 180 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.
From 33 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 110 fpm before coming down at 210 fpm to touch. The nose came up 1.5° 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 3,403 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.6 m of it down 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 485 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Larnaca International Airport, the aircraft began its taxiing process from the parking area to the runway, taking approximately 2 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. Upon reaching runway 04, the departure roll commenced, with the aircraft taking off in 946 meters, which accounted for 34% of the runway's length. The liftoff speed was achieved at 124 knots, as the aircraft lifted off into the local weather conditions, characterized by a temperature of 19°C and a wind speed of 23 knots from 359°.
As the aircraft climbed out of Larnaca, it began its enroute climb, ascending from 990 feet above sea level to 42,993 feet in 20 minutes, covering a distance of 152 nautical miles. This marked the beginning of the enroute level cruise, which lasted for 10 minutes and covered 234 nautical miles, positioning the aircraft 74 miles southeast of Beykonak, Turkey. The enroute descent phase followed, with the aircraft descending from 42,994 feet to 1,597 feet in 22 minutes, covering 162 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 03R at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport was initiated from the southwest, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 37.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,312 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 03R was executed with a threshold speed of 109 knots, and the touchdown point was 56 meters beyond the touchdown zone. Although the touchdown speed of 104 knots was slightly above the optimal value, the touchdown rate of -207 feet per minute was considered fair. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the runway rollout alignment was also satisfactory. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking approximately 4 minutes to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 556 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 66 minutes and a fuel consumption of 731 kilograms.
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