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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Apply small, early rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline from touchdown onward.
What happened: The aircraft drifted 18 m off the centreline during the landing roll, and by touchdown the offset had grown to 18 m. A centreline deviation that appears on landing usually carries through to a larger offset at touchdown.
Watch for: Centreline marker: aircraft tracking straight over the runway centreline, not drifting to either side.
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.
Rotated at 144 kt, 7 kt below the 151 kt target, and lifted off at 147 kt 0.8 s later, the nose coming up at 9.9° a second. Climb 3 averaged 198 kt, 24 kt over its 174 kt target.
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 828 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,622 m of runway left; gear up at 252 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,260 fpm on average to 828 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 3,096 m runway.
Rolled from 135 m in, drifted 4.4 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 39 % 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 4 nm to 0.9 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 0.9 nm and low 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 90 ft under).
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 from 4 nm to 0.9 nm, then 30 m right of it from 0.9 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 −3 kt and +2 kt on the approach speed of 131 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
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 6° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 093° at 8 kt · 8 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 124 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 38 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 20 ft, 56 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 15 ft, 35 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 298 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 390 fpm at the flare to 170 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 2,577 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 18 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 4.4 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 298 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 787-8 taxied from the parking area to runway 08 at MDPC Punta Cana International Airport, covering 3 nm in 7 minutes.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 08, using 1,232 m (40 % of the runway) for the takeoff. Liftoff occurred at 147 kt. Ambient temperature was 34 °C with wind from 109° at 6 kt, including a 5 kt headwind and 4 kt crosswind.
Climb began overhead MDPC, ascending from 1,040 ft asl to 37,472 ft asl, a gain of 36,431 ft achieved in 17 minutes while covering 111 nm.
The first cruise segment started 82 miles south of MDPU Mona Airport and continued for 25 minutes, during which the aircraft traveled 189 nm at level flight.
Descent commenced 78 miles north of Sabana Westpunt, descending from 38,006 ft asl to 8,497 ft asl, a loss of 29,510 ft over 16 minutes and 105 nm.
A brief cruise followed 13 miles south-west of Dorp Soto, lasting 2 minutes and covering 7 nm.
The next descent began 18 miles south-west of Dorp Soto, dropping from 8,168 ft asl to 2,967 ft asl, a decrease of 5,202 ft in 5 minutes across 16 nm.
A further cruise segment occurred 7 miles west of Dorp Soto, lasting 3 minutes and encompassing 8 nm.
The final descent started 3 miles south of Dorp Soto, reducing altitude from 2,491 ft asl to 1,343 ft asl, a loss of 1,148 ft in 2 minutes while covering 5 nm.
The aircraft entered final approach to runway 11 at TNCC Hato International Airport from the west, on a heading of 104.0° at 4 nm and 1,300 ft agl.
Landing was executed on runway 11, which is 2,576 m long. The threshold speed was 129 kt; touchdown occurred at 127 kt after a 296 m ground roll. The vertical speed at touchdown was minus 174 fpm. The touchdown point was offset 16.0 m from the centreline. Ambient temperature was 32 °C with wind from 90° at 8 kt, comprising an 8 kt headwind and 2 kt crosswind.
Total landing distance measured 959 m, representing 37 % of the runway, and the rollout remained misaligned by 16.0 m from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, covering less than 1 nm in 1 minute.
Overall, the flight covered 449 nm in 80 minutes and consumed 5,459 kg of fuel.
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