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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 6.6 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Stop raising the nose once the sink is arrested at 0.2 ft, holding that pitch steady through touchdown rather than further.
What happened: The nose came up 3.5° in the flare, leaving pitch well above this type's ground attitude at touchdown. Carrying that much pitch through touchdown usually carries a bounce after it.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold pitch at the normal ground attitude through touchdown.
Below 10,000 ft you are typically limited to 250 kt indicated (a US rule that much of the world mirrors in some form, though not universally). This forces a deceleration around 10,000 ft whether the profile wants one or not, so plan for it rather than discovering it.
Start to finish · 24 stages, 22 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 125 kt with 7.9° 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 934 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,387 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,490 fpm on average to 934 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 3,284 m runway.
Rolled from 1,207 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.4 m left, in 5 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 52 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.5 to 0.6 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.6 nm and slow from 0.3 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 3.5° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 30 ft below 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: 3.5° here, which is about 370 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 17× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.6 nm, then 22 m left of it from 0.6 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 55 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 33 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to 3.5 nm (up to −6 kt), then inside the band to 0.3 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −10 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 060° at 5 kt · 5 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 30 ft, 20 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 275 m in, close to 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 went from 560 fpm at 31 ft to 210 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.7° 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 2,986 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.9 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2 m left by the end of 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 275 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.26 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Honda HA420 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at UBBB Heydar Aliyev International Airport, taking 15 minutes and covering a distance of 3 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 17, with a takeoff distance of 1,713 meters, which accounted for 52% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 125 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to a higher altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of 10°C temperature and a wind speed of 18 knots at 160 degrees. The crosswind was 6 knots, while the headwind was 17 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile west of Biny Selo, a suburb of Baku City, Azerbaijan, and continued for 22 minutes, covering a distance of 81 nautical miles. The aircraft climbed from an initial altitude of 966 feet above sea level to a maximum altitude of 42,864 feet.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 6 miles northwest of Qobustan, a town in Azerbaijan. This phase lasted for 67 minutes, covering a distance of 794 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, starting 11 miles northwest of Bolu, a city in Turkey. The descent from 42,947 feet to 31,006 feet took 7 minutes, covering a distance of 38 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 2 miles southwest of Karasu, a town in Turkey. This phase lasted for 3 minutes, covering a distance of 17 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent again, starting 9 miles northeast of Kandira, a town in Turkey. The descent from 31,007 feet to 19,010 feet took 8 minutes, covering a distance of 42 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 9 miles northeast of Gebze, a town in Turkey. This phase lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent once more, starting 3 miles east of Gebze. The descent from 19,008 feet to 8,005 feet took 9 minutes, covering a distance of 36 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started overhead Gemlik, a town in Turkey. This phase lasted for 8 minutes, covering a distance of 31 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent again, starting 19 miles south of Beylikduezue, a town in Turkey. The descent from 8,010 feet to 1,813 feet took 9 minutes, covering a distance of 29 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 06L at LTFJ Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport took place from the southwest, with a heading of 64.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,508 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 06L was successful, with a touchdown distance of 273 meters and a touchdown speed of 90 knots. The touchdown rate was fair at -237 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.9 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 11°C temperature and a wind speed of 5 knots at 60 degrees. The crosswind was 0 knots, while the headwind was 5 knots. The total landing distance was 1,366 meters, which accounted for 46% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good.
The taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 5 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,084 nautical miles
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