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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 131 kt with 7.4° 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 952 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,087 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,120 fpm on average to 952 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 2,148 m runway.
Rolled from 163 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 3.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.8 m right. Airborne 37 % 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 final from 4 nm.
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 140 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 16× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then drifted 22 m right between 0.7 and 0.3 nm, then inside the band 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 32 ft, 18 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 459 m in, 154 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 32 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 120 fpm before coming down at 230 fpm to touch. The nose came up 3.1° 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 2,135 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.6 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 459 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.27 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Cessna Longitude, then departed from runway 04L at KBOS Logan International Airport. The takeoff distance was 644 meters, which accounted for 30% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 132 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 16°C temperature and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270°. The crosswind was 1 knot, while the headwind was 0 knots. The enroute climb started overhead Winthrop, Massachusetts, where the aircraft ascended from 1,105 feet above sea level to 15,678 feet above sea level, an increase of 14,573 feet in just 4 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles.
Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise, starting 1 mile southwest of Winchester, Massachusetts. This phase of the flight lasted for 20 minutes and covered a distance of 131 nautical miles. The enroute descent began 3 miles southwest of KOAU Lake Carmel Airport in Lake Carmel, New York, where the aircraft descended from 15,586 feet above sea level to 3,901 feet above sea level, a decrease of 11,684 feet in 9 minutes, covering a distance of 45 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise, this time starting overhead Bushwick, New York, and lasting for 11 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 22 at KLGA LaGuardia Airport was made from the northeast, heading 213.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,284 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 22 at KLGA LaGuardia Airport was successful, with a runway length of 2,135 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was also good at 116 knots. The touchdown distance was 458 meters, and the touchdown speed was 103 knots, both of which were good. However, the touchdown rate was fair at -231 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 15°C temperature and a wind speed of 1 knot at 270°, with a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 1 knot. The total landing distance was 774 meters, which accounted for 36% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was perfect. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took just 3 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 201 nautical miles and took 52 minutes, using 1,217 kilograms of fuel.
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