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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Fly the glidepath with small pitch and power adjustments, keeping the glideslope indicator centered all the way to the threshold.
What happened: You drifted off the glideslope on the approach, and that kind of deviation usually carries into an early flare like the one that began at 51 ft.
Watch for: Watch the glideslope deviation indicator on approach, then the radio altimeter, aiming to start the flare no higher than 45 ft.
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.
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4 landings
The flight is kept as it was recorded: it ends when the engine is shut down, so a landing with the rotors turning is a stop along the way, not a new flight.
| # | Where | Into flight | Touchdown | Ground speed | Sideways | On the ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KSGU · St George Regional Airport | 22:36 | 42 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 0:16 |
| 2 | KSGU · St George Regional Airport | 29:00 | 37 ft/min | 3.9 kt | 2.8 kt | 0:07 |
| 3 | KSGU · St George Regional Airport | 29:24 | 67 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 0:52 |
| 4 | 1L8 · General Dick Stout Field | 48:56 | 24 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | End of flight |
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 126 kt, on the 127 kt target, and lifted off at 137 kt 2.1 s later, the nose coming up at 5.1° a second. Climb 3 averaged 197 kt, 21 kt over its 176 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 821 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,508 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,390 fpm on average to 821 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 3,775 m runway.
Rolled from 1,315 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.2 m left. Airborne 53 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.2 to 0.3 nm, then not again: low 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 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 2.8 nm, then high to 1.3 nm (up to 770 ft over), then back on it to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 50 ft under).
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 all the way from 4 nm, never more than 127 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −4 kt and +26 kt on the approach speed of 122 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.4 points, for starting the flare at 51 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 310° at 2 kt · 2 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 111 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 37 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 51 ft, 286 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 13 ft, 37 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 232 m in, 72 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 520 fpm at the flare to 70 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° 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 2,651 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 0.3 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 232 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 28L at ULLI Pulkovo Airport in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 28L, the Boeing 737-700 accelerated through a takeoff distance of 2,008 m, representing 53 % of the runway, and lifted off at 138 kt. Local conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 264°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced 1 mile west of ULLI, with the aircraft ascending from 1,059 ft asl to 40,577 ft asl, an increase of 39,518 ft achieved in 45 minutes while covering 348 nm.
The first level-cruise segment began 4 miles north-east of Gagarin and lasted 97 minutes, during which 812 nm were flown.
Descent started 20 miles south-east of Kamyzyak, with the airplane descending from 40,867 ft asl to 1,927 ft asl, a loss of 38,940 ft in 23 minutes over a distance of 171 nm.
A brief level-cruise phase followed, beginning 8 miles east of UATE Aktau Airport, lasting 3 minutes and covering 8 nm.
Final approach to runway 30 at UATE Aktau Airport was executed from the south-east on a heading of 302.0°, intercepting the glide path at 4 nm and 1,241 ft agl. The aircraft then descended from 1,286 ft agl to 25 ft agl in 111 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing was made on runway 30, whose length is 2,651 m. The threshold speed was 119 kt, touchdown occurred 233 m down the runway at 113 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 134 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was very good, and the local weather was 17 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 310°, a 0 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 653 m, equivalent to 25 % of the runway, and runway-rollout alignment was perfect.
After exiting the runway, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, traveling less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,350 nm, required 173 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 7,164 kg of fuel.
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