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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
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 61 kt with 12.6° 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 428 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,405 m of runway left; then climbing at 400 fpm on average to 428 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 3,032 m runway.
Rolled from 370 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 29 m at the widest, and lifted off 29 m left, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. 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 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 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, 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 18× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 9 m left of it 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
5 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 67 kt. Touched down with the nose 6° into wind, wings level.
Wind 210° at 7 kt · 4 kt tail · 5 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 8 ft, 42 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 104 m in, 201 m short of 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.
The sink grew from 150 fpm at 8 ft to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.7° 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 2,337 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.3 m left of the centreline and drifted to 7.4 m left on the rollout, back to 2.2 m left by the end.
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 104 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.20 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Douglas DC-3 started with a 10-minute taxi from the parking area to runway 32R at LFBO Toulouse-Blagnac Airport. The departure roll was smooth, with a takeoff distance of 148m, covering 5% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 61 knots. The local weather at the time of departure was 16°C with a wind of 7 knots coming from 209°, resulting in a 7 knot crosswind and 3 knot tailwind.
The initial climb began overhead LFBO Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, ascending from 935 feet above sea level to 2,212 feet, covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. The enroute climb continued over various locations, including Beauzelle, Toulouse, and Saint-Felix-Lauragais Airport, reaching a peak altitude of 8,939 feet above sea level.
Cruising periods in between climbs were brief, with the longest lasting 4 minutes over Sainte-Eulalie, covering 5 nautical miles. The enroute descent commenced overhead LFMK Carcassonne Airport, descending from 8,953 feet to 1,970 feet over a distance of 34 nautical miles.
The final approach and landing took place on runway 33 at LFMP Perpignan-Rivesaltes Airport, with a touchdown speed of 67 knots and a vertical speed indicator showing -194 ft/m. The landing distance was 1,056 meters, representing 45% of the runway length. After landing, a 3-minute taxi brought the aircraft back to the parking area.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 102 nautical miles, lasting 54 minutes and consuming 252 kg of fuel. The weather conditions remained relatively stable throughout the flight, with a temperature of 16°C and winds of 7 knots at 209°, resulting in minimal crosswind and tailwind components.
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