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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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The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 96 kt with 6.6° 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 911 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,869 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,730 fpm on average to 911 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 3,990 m runway.
Rolled from 204 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 11 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.6 m right. Airborne 16 % 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° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
High from 2.0 nm, where the final began, to 0.6 nm (up to 1,030 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 597 m left of the centreline at 2.0 nm, then inside it from 1.4 to 0.4 nm, then 16 m left of it from 0.4 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 from 2.0 nm, where the final began, to 1.1 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +43 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
10 kt across from the right, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 110 kt. Touched down with 5° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 094° at 10 kt · 1 kt tail · 10 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 115 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 23 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 1,230 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 7 ft, 43 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 285 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 1,230 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 7 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 120 fpm before coming down at 230 fpm to touch. The nose went down 1.2° 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 full 1,230 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.2 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.4 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 285 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.53 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 25C at Frankfurt Airport (EDDF). The aircraft, a PC21, accelerated down the runway and lifted off at a speed of 96 kt, covering a distance of 464 m, which was 12% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 31 °C and a wind speed of 11 kt from a direction of 80 °, resulting in a tailwind component of 11 kt.
As the aircraft climbed away from Frankfurt Airport, it began its enroute climb 1 mile south of Kelsterbach, Hessen, Germany. The climb was steep, with the aircraft ascending from 1,332 ft above sea level to 3,215 ft in just 1 minute, covering a distance of 3 nm. The aircraft then leveled off and entered a cruise phase, flying overhead Raunheim, Hessen, Germany, for 2 minutes and covering 7 nm.
The aircraft then began another climb phase, this time from overhead Eppstein, Hessen, Germany, to an altitude of 4,152 ft. This climb was less steep than the previous one, with the aircraft ascending 902 ft in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nm. The aircraft then leveled off again and entered another cruise phase, flying 3 miles north of Kronberg, Hessen, Germany, for 2 minutes and covering 7 nm.
As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its descent from an altitude of 4,590 ft above sea level to 1,346 ft, a decrease of 3,243 ft in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nm. The descent phase was initiated 2 miles southeast of Friedrichsdorf, Hessen, Germany.
The final approach to runway 36 at Reichelsheim Airfield (EDFB) was made from the south, with the aircraft flying at a heading of 342.0 ° and an altitude of 927 ft above ground level. However, the pilot decided to execute a go-around at an altitude of 438 ft above ground level.
The aircraft then made a second approach to runway 36, landing successfully with a touchdown distance of 284 m. However, the touchdown speed was slightly fast at 110 kt, and the touchdown rate was fair at -232 fpm. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 7.4 m.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 28 °C and a wind speed of 10 kt from a direction of 93 °, resulting in a crosswind component of 10 kt and a tailwind component of 1 kt. The total landing distance was 1,076 m, which was 88% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned from the centreline by 8.5 m.
The total flight distance was 40 nm, and the flight duration was 12 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 32 kg of fuel during the flight.
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