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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 87 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 57 kt, 30 kt before the 87 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 87 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Use small rudder inputs against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout.
What happened: During the rollout the aircraft drifted 82 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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3 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 | EDNX · Schleissheim Airfield | 0:13 | 307 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 0:22 |
| 2 | EDNX · Schleissheim Airfield | 3:43 | 114 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 1:00 |
| 3 | EDNX · Schleissheim Airfield | 7:13 | 0 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 57 kt, 30 kt below the 87 kt target, and lifted off at 82 kt 5.9 s later, the nose coming up at 0.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 124 kt, 10 kt under its 134 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 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 943 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,829 m of runway left; gear up at 46 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,470 fpm on average to 943 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 3,594 m runway.
Rolled from 80 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 5.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.5 m right. Airborne 13 % 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.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.8 to 0.8 nm, then not again: slow from 0.8 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 430 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 10× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 37 m off the centreline.
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 42 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 25 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to 3.8 nm (up to −10 kt), then inside the band to 0.8 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −13 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 with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 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 62 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 63 s, an average deceleration of 0.03 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 1,951 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 49 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 24 ft. Touched down 409 m in, 105 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 1,951 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 440 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.9° 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 first 1,951 m of the 4,015 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 23 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 409 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied to runway 24 at MUSA San Antonio de los Baños Airfield and commenced the departure roll. The take-off run required 504 m, representing 14 % of the available runway, and the aircraft became airborne at 82 kt. Ambient conditions were 16 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt head-wind and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
Climb began directly overhead MUSA, with the airplane accelerating from 1,135 ft asl to 4,463 ft asl, an altitude gain of 3,328 ft achieved in 2 minutes while covering 4 nm.
Level cruise was established 1 mile east of Alquizar (Artemisa, Cuba) and persisted for 2 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 4 nm at a constant altitude.
Descent commenced 2 miles west of MUSA, descending from 4,296 ft asl to 1,870 ft asl, a loss of 2,426 ft over 3 minutes and a distance of 6 nm.
The final approach to runway 06 at MUHA José Martí International Airport involved a descent from 1,730 ft agl to 41 ft agl in 167 seconds, and the aircraft met the stabilisation gates criteria.
Landing on runway 06 was executed with a runway length of 4,015 m; the threshold speed was slightly below the target at 71 kt. Touchdown occurred 408 m down the runway at 60 kt with a vertical speed of minus 78 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 4.4 m from the centreline. Weather at the time was 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, resulting in a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
The total landing distance recorded was 1,846 m, equivalent to 46 % of the runway, and the rollout was excessively misaligned, ending 85.2 m from the centreline.
After rollout, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that lasted 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
In summary, the flight covered 21 nm, took 13 minutes, and consumed 31 kg of fuel.
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