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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 0.8° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 23° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Below a thousand feet the aeroplane is slow, heavy and close to the ground. A steep turn loses lift, raises the stall speed and flattens the climb just when the gradient matters most. A normal turn on course is a rate one — fifteen degrees or so, twenty-five at the outside, this penalty is to acknowledge when a turn has stopped being a turn and become a manoeuvre.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 4,013 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 198 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in question was operated by a Boeing 747-8 aircraft. The aircraft began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 8 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 35L at LIMC Milan Malpensa International Airport, with the aircraft lifting off after a takeoff distance of 1,185 meters, which accounted for 34% of the runway.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 25°C, with a wind speed of 3 knots at a direction of 20°. The aircraft experienced a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 3 knots. The liftoff speed was 156 knots. After departing from Milan Malpensa, the aircraft began its enroute climb, which started overhead Ferno, a location near Milan Malpensa. The climb took the aircraft from an altitude of 1,610 feet above sea level to 36,852 feet above sea level, an increase of 35,243 feet, in 14 minutes and covering a distance of 91 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 2 miles south east of Langhirano, a location in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. This phase of the flight lasted 47 minutes and covered a distance of 399 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another enroute climb, this time from an altitude of 37,356 feet above sea level to 39,220 feet above sea level, an increase of 1,864 feet, in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 14 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise that followed started 1 mile north east of Domanico, a location in the Calabria region of Italy, and lasted 182 minutes, covering a distance of 1,476 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its enroute descent, which started 75 miles north of the EM03 Red Sea Moving Carrier - CVN69, a location in the Mecca Region of Saudi Arabia. The descent took the aircraft from an altitude of 38,679 feet above sea level to 1,981 feet above sea level, a decrease of 36,698 feet, in 19 minutes and covering a distance of 114 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a short enroute level cruise, which started 4 miles east of Jeddah, a location in the Mecca Region of Saudi Arabia, and lasted 3 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 34R at OEJN King Abdulaziz International Airport was made from the south, with the aircraft heading 339.0° at an altitude of 1,261 feet above ground level and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway. The landing took place on a runway with a length of 4,013 meters, and the threshold height was good. The threshold speed was also good at 143 knots, but the touchdown speed was a little fast at 143 knots. The touchdown rate was very hard at -504 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.0 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 32°C, with a wind speed of 3 knots at a direction of 310°. The aircraft experienced a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 3 knots. The total landing distance was 1,206 meters, which accounted for 30% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 3 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The total flight distance was 2
The Boeing 747-8 aircraft successfully landed at OEJN King Abdulaziz International Airport, achieving a score of 96.5%. The final approach to runway 34R was initiated from the south, with the aircraft heading 339.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,261 feet above ground level.
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway with a speed of 143 knots, which was slightly above the optimal threshold speed. However, the touchdown distance of 198 meters was within the acceptable range. The touchdown rate was notably high at -504 feet per minute, indicating a hard landing.
The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 4.0 meters, which may have contributed to the hard landing. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 32°C and a wind speed of 3 knots from a direction of 310°. The crosswind component was minimal at 1 knot, while the headwind component was 3 knots, which may have affected the aircraft's approach and landing.
Despite the hard landing, the aircraft's runway rollout alignment was very good, indicating that the pilots maintained control and stability during the landing roll. The total landing distance of 1,206 meters was 30% of the runway length, which is within the acceptable range. Overall, the landing was successful, but there is room for improvement in terms of touchdown speed and rate.
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