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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 324 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 287 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 139 kt, 3 kt below the 142 kt target, and lifted off at 146 kt 1.9 s later, the nose coming up at 5.4° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 179 kt target, at 180 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 903 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,092 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,600 fpm on average to 903 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 3,496 m runway.
Rolled from 61 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.1 m left. Airborne 32 % 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 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then not again: fast 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 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° 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +14 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 0.6 points, for 324 fpm of sink coming back after the flare.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 210° at 3 kt · 2 kt head · 1 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 130 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 35 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 36 ft, 41 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 29 ft, 21 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 508 m in, 203 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 1,524 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 440 fpm at the flare to 0 fpm at 11 ft, then back up to 290 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 1,524 m of the 2,482 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.1 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2.7 m of it down 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 508 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 287 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 32L at LFBO Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was on runway 32L. The aircraft used 1,143 m of runway, 33 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 139 kt. Local weather was 20 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 320°, giving a headwind component of 4 kt and no cross-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 18 seconds, averaging 2,403 fpm and reaching 186 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 1,491 ft asl to 40,496 ft asl in 44 minutes, covering 314 nm while remaining overhead the Toulouse-Blagnac area.
Level flight was held at 41,000 ft asl for 93 minutes, covering 737 nm, beginning over Vernouillet.
Descent began at 40,688 ft asl and proceeded to 1,417 ft asl in 26 minutes, covering 174 nm. The descent started 2 miles west of Skultorp and included a brief level-off at 2,500 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 26 at ESSA Stockholm-Arlanda Airport descended from 1,343 ft agl to 66 ft agl in 96 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate. At 1,027 ft agl the aircraft was in final flap position 8 and was flying 157 kt.
Landing on runway 26 was on a runway 2,482 m long with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was slightly above target at 142 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 88 m beyond the touchdown zone at 134 kt, noted as a little fast, with a fair touchdown rate of minus 288 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,320 m, 53 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 1,232 nm in 169 minutes and used 7,636 kg of fuel.
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