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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: You drifted off the centreline on the approach.
Watch for: Runway centreline: tracked all the way to the threshold.
See Arrival Approach
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 21 stages, 19 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 161 kt with 6.6° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 178 kt, 12 kt over its 166 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 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 964 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 994 ft of runway left; gear up at 38 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,110 fpm on average to 964 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 8,296 ft runway.
Rolled from 193 ft in, drifted 8 ft left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 68 % 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: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.4 to 0.4 nm, then not again: low from 0.4 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 60 ft under).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 from 4 nm to 2.8 nm, then drifted 390 ft left between 2.8 and 1.4 nm, then inside the band from 1.4 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 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 +0 kt and +10 kt on the approach speed of 136 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
Perfect landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 019° 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 127 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 47 s, an average deceleration of 0.11 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 6,587 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 28 ft, 22 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 15 ft. Touched down 1,468 ft in, 468 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 6,587 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.0° 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 6,587 ft of the 8,853 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 6 ft 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 1,468 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from KBTV Burlington International Airport, the CRJ900 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took approximately 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. With a local temperature of 38°F and a gentle wind of 2 knots at 70°, the aircraft took off from runway 15, utilizing 73% of the available runway length of 5,677 feet. The liftoff speed was achieved at 162 knots, marking the start of the aircraft's ascent.
As the CRJ900 climbed from 1,352 feet above sea level to 30,009 feet, it covered a distance of 85 nautical miles in 14 minutes, demonstrating a steady and efficient climb. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, maintaining an altitude of 30,009 feet for 60 minutes while covering 481 nautical miles. The crew's decision to initiate a descent from 30,002 feet to 24,023 feet, a decrease of 5,979 feet, was executed smoothly in just 3 minutes, covering 26 nautical miles. The aircraft continued to navigate through various enroute level cruise and descent phases, ultimately preparing for its final approach to runway 36R at KCLT Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
The CRJ900's final approach was executed from the south, with a heading of 355.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,184 feet above ground level. The aircraft landed smoothly on runway 36R, which had a length of 8,690 feet. The touchdown distance was 1,465 feet, and the touchdown speed was 128 knots, both of which were within acceptable limits. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the runway rollout alignment was also satisfactory. The total landing distance was 6,314 feet, utilizing 73% of the available runway length. Following a short taxiing period of 1 minute, covering less than 1 nautical mile, the aircraft came to a stop in the parking area. The total flight distance was 729 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 116 minutes, with a fuel consumption of 7,746 pounds.
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