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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Begin raising the nose sooner, starting the flare by 11 ft to give the sink time to be arrested before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 2.8 ft, 8.4 ft below the normal band; a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink, and a bounce often follows at touchdown.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: begin the flare by 11 ft
The rudder input is a changing profile through the roll rather than one that is held. So the demand on your right foot starts large at power application, eases as speed builds and the rudder gains authority, then jumps again at rotation.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 166 kt, 4 kt above the 162 kt target, and lifted off at 173 kt 2.5 s later, the nose coming up at 1.5° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 175 kt target, at 174 kt on average.
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 917 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,193 m of runway left; gear up at 80 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,320 fpm on average to 917 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 3,806 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, never more than 1.3 m off the centreline. Airborne 59 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.7 nm, about 1,280 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the wings.
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 50 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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 79 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +0 kt and +4 kt on the approach speed of 137 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
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare began at 3 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 529 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, 2° of bank.
Wind 359° at 2 kt · 2 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.
Side view — the last 1,807 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 53 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 3 ft. Touched down 529 m in, 224 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 1,807 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 310 fpm at the flare to 250 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° 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 1,807 m of the 2,588 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.4 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.5 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.
Touched down 529 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.21 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 17R at SCEL, covering 4 nm in 8 minutes.
Take-off was performed on runway 17R with a take-off distance of 2,250 m (59 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 166 kt. Local weather was 24 °C, wind 5 kt from 211°, with a 3 kt crosswind and a 5 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 21 seconds, averaging 2,138 fpm and reaching 168 kt at the top. The climb continued from 2,518 ft asl to 33,995 ft asl in 25 minutes, covering 154 nm, beginning 1 mile south of SCEL.
Cruise at 34,000 ft asl lasted 240 minutes, covering 1,884 nm, starting 53 nm north-west of SCHO. A subsequent climb from 33,999 ft asl to 35,830 ft asl took 3 minutes over 27 nm, starting at latitude -3.4679427, longitude -87.5430024.
Level flight between 36,000 ft asl and 40,000 ft asl continued for 444 minutes, covering 3,533 nm, starting at latitude -3.0475623, longitude -87.7436551.
Descent from 40,000 ft asl to 1,667 ft asl was completed in 25 minutes, covering 142 nm, beginning overhead Gresham.
Final approach to runway 16R at KSEA descended from 1,345 ft agl to 38 ft agl in 100 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 2,178 ft agl, 163 kt; final flap position 4 at 1,821 ft agl, 160 kt.
Landing on runway 16R (runway length 2,588 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 140 kt. The flare was described as very good but started late. Touchdown occurred 105 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 140 kt, a little fast, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 249 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 4.6 m from the centreline. One bounce was recorded on touchdown. Total landing distance was 1,719 m (66 % of runway) and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather was 8 °C, wind 2 kt from 359°, with 0 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to parking in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 5,752 nm in 751 minutes and used 83,060 kg of fuel.
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