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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Use aileron to level the wings and hold the upwind wing low only enough to track the centreline before touchdown.
What happened: At touchdown the wings were not level, with an average bank angle of 1.3°.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator and keep wings level through touchdown.
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 · 16 stages, 14 in the score
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2 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 | LFMK · Carcassonne Airport | 18:03 | 5 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 1:00 |
| 2 | LFMK · Carcassonne Airport | 25:34 | 135 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 49 kt, on the 48 kt target, and lifted off at 51 kt 1.6 s later, the nose coming up at 2.3° a second.
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 849 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 714 m of runway left; then climbing at 770 fpm on average to 849 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 1,097 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 0.6 m off the centreline. Airborne 22 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 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 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.3 nm, about 770 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 1.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 360 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. 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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 69 m right of the centreline at 1.9 nm, then inside the band from 1.5 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 30 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 −2 kt and +16 kt on the approach speed of 60 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 4.0 points, for the nose going up and down 15 times.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 7° left of the track, 3° of bank.
Wind 120° at 11 kt · 11 kt head · 1 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 42 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 1,097 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 29 ft, 40 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 19 ft, 31 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 365 m in, 60 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 1,097 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 420 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.9° 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 1,097 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.6 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2.8 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 365 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 13 at LELL Sabadell Airfield, a movement that lasted 15 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 13, the take-off run was 261 m, representing 24 % of the runway length. Liftoff occurred at 52 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 31 °C, wind from 120° at 10 kt, with a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 10 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead Barbera del Valles, rising from 1,340 ft asl to 3,767 ft asl - an increase of 2,427 ft - in 4 minutes while covering 4 nm.
The first cruise segment began over Cerdanyola del Valles and continued for 21 minutes, during which 32 nm were flown at level altitude.
Descent started 1 mile south-west of Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, descending from 3,690 ft asl to 1,840 ft asl - a loss of 1,850 ft - in 2 minutes and covering 3 nm.
A second level cruise was flown over Sabadell for 3 minutes, adding another 4 nm to the flight path.
The final approach to runway 13 was executed from the north-west, on a heading of 125.0°, at 1 nm distance and 886 ft agl.
Landing on runway 13 occurred with a runway length of 1,097 m. The threshold speed was 62 kt, touchdown distance measured 359 m, touchdown speed was 43 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 115 fpm. Weather at the time was a temperature of 32 °C, wind from 119° at 12 kt, with a 2 kt cross-wind and a 12 kt head-wind component.
Rollout continued for a total landing distance of 507 m, representing 46 % of the runway, with alignment maintained throughout the rollout.
The aircraft taxied back to the parking area, a movement that lasted 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 47 nm, required 39 minutes of flight time, and consumed 5 kg of fuel.
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