Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Hold the glidepath
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 · 13 stages, 11 in the score
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 70 kt with 4.9° of pitch. Climb 3 averaged 95 kt, 7 kt over its 88 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 579 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 223 m of runway left; gear up at 89 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 630 fpm on average to 579 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 820 m runway.
Rolled from 54 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 8.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 8.7 m left. Airborne 50 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off, wings more than 10° from level and speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 74 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, banked until 0.5 nm, high until 0.2 nm, right of the centreline until 0.2 nm, sinking too fast from 0.9 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.
High from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to 0.2 nm (up to 580 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. 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.
Joined 147 m left of the centreline at 1.3 nm, then drifted 17 m right between 0.5 and 0.2 nm, then inside the band from 0.2 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 1.3 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +47 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
The flare strayed well off the target profile. Crossing the threshold 16 kt above target, the flare ballooned 38 ft agl back up from 3 ft agl above the runway, 220 m in. Touchdown was 442 m past the threshold. Hold the attitude and let it settle rather than pushing - a balloon is almost always excess speed, so the fix is on the approach, not in the flare.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 65 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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 820 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft; ballooned 38 ft from 3 ft. Touched down 442 m in, 137 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 820 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 the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 1,190 fpm before coming down at 170 fpm to touch. The nose came up 7.1° 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 full 820 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 14 m left of the centreline and drifted to 18 m left on 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 442 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from EVDU Griva Airfield, the Tecnam P2006T MKII aircraft began its takeoff roll on runway 31. The aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 71 kt, achieving lift-off in a distance of 417 m, which accounted for 51% of the available runway length. The local weather conditions were favorable, with a temperature of 25 °C and a wind speed of 0 kt.
As the aircraft transitioned to the enroute phase, it began its initial climb 1 mile northwest of EVDU Griva Airfield, reaching an altitude of 1,687 ft asl. The climb rate was impressive, with an increase of 922 ft in just 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nm. The aircraft then began its descent over Daugavpils, reducing its altitude by 1,060 ft in 2 minutes, while covering a distance of 3 nm. The enroute climb phase was repeated, with the aircraft ascending from 632 ft asl to 840 ft asl, an increase of 209 ft in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nm.
The final approach to runway 31 at EVDU Griva Airfield was initiated from the south east, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 334.0 ° at 1 nm and 526 ft agl. However, the touchdown speed was slightly higher than desired at 90 kt, resulting in a touchdown point that utilized more than 50% of the available runway. The touchdown speed of 64 kt was satisfactory, but the touchdown rate of -248 fpm was only fair. The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 13.7 m from the centreline, and the runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 17.9 m from the centreline. The total landing distance was 656 m, accounting for 80% of the runway length. The total flight distance was 13 nm, and the aircraft consumed 4 kg of fuel during the flight.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values