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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 1.9° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 4.8° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 130 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 137 kt, 7 kt above the 130 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 130 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 141 kt with 11.0° 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 959 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,772 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,370 fpm on average to 959 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 3,006 m runway.
Rolled from 93 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.3 m left. Airborne 33 % 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 six checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.5 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 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 80 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° 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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then 18 m left of it from 0.5 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −5 kt and +12 kt on the approach speed of 130 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
Great landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 131 kt. Touched down with the nose 2° into wind, wings level.
Wind 300° at 16 kt · 16 kt head · 3 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 115 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 46 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 1,841 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 52 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 504 m in, 200 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 1,841 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 690 fpm at 51 ft to 120 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 first 1,841 m of the 3,701 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.5 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.1 m right 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 504 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with taxiing from the parking to the runway, which took 5 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft then departed from runway 31L at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport, with a takeoff distance of 898 meters, which is 30% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 142 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were a temperature of 6 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 13 knots coming from a direction of 300 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 3 knots and a headwind of 13 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile west of the airport and rising from an altitude of 1,458 feet above sea level to 11,922 feet above sea level, an increase of 10,464 feet in just 4 minutes, covering a distance of 13 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its enroute descent, starting overhead Toekoel, and descending from 11,981 feet above sea level to 6,660 feet above sea level, a decrease of 5,321 feet in 5 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise, starting 1 mile south west of Jozsefvaros, and lasted for 2 minutes, covering a distance of 8 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began another descent, starting overhead Gyal, and descending from 6,254 feet above sea level to 2,800 feet above sea level, a decrease of 3,453 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 14 nautical miles. Another level cruise followed, starting 1 mile south west of Nyaregyhaza, and lasted for 3 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The final descent began 1 mile south west of Monor, and the aircraft descended from 2,804 feet above sea level to 1,646 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,158 feet in 2 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 31R at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport, coming in from the south east, heading 313.0 degrees at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,185 feet above ground level.
The landing was successful, with the touchdown point being 84 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed was 131 knots, which was good, and the touchdown rate was excellent at -90 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 3.5 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 7 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 16 knots coming from a direction of 300 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 3 knots and a headwind of 16 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,756 meters, which is 47% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The aircraft then taxied to the parking from the runway, which took 4 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 62 nautical miles, taking 27 minutes, and the aircraft used 2,247 kilograms of fuel.
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