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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 344 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 344 fpm next time
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,068 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 201 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 07C at VHHH Hong Kong International Airport in 10 minutes, covering 4 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 07C with a distance of 1,955 m (54 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 170 kt. Local weather was 31 °C with wind 4 kt from 109°, giving a 3 kt headwind and a 3 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 16 seconds, averaging 2,450 fpm and reaching 182 kt at the top of the segment.
The aircraft climbed from 994 ft asl to 32,660 ft asl in 44 minutes, covering 316 nm, beginning about 1 mile north-east of VHHH.
Level flight at 33 000 ft asl continued for 49 minutes, covering 417 nm, starting 30 miles south-west of RCCM Qimei.
A further climb from 33 000 ft asl to 34 806 ft asl took 6 minutes and covered 55 nm, beginning at latitude 27.3222682, longitude 124.8949734.
The aircraft then levelled between 35 000 ft and 39 000 ft asl for 1 226 minutes, covering 11 167 nm, starting 106 miles north-west of ROKJ Kumejima Airport.
Descent from 38 687 ft asl to 1 404 ft asl was completed in 26 minutes over 137 nm, beginning 7 miles east of KLOS Lost Hills Airport.
During final approach to runway 24L at KLAX Los Angeles International Airport, the aircraft descended from 1 326 ft agl to 29 ft agl in 103 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 2 446 ft agl at 162 kt and final flap position 4 at 2 095 ft agl at 161 kt.
Landing on runway 24L (runway length 3 068 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 137 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown distance was good at 200 m; touchdown speed was 137 kt, noted as a little fast. Touchdown rate was firm at minus 344 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 7.0 m from the centreline. One bounce occurred on touchdown.
Local weather at KLAX was 24 °C with wind 2 kt from 230°, giving a 2 kt headwind and a 1 kt crosswind.
The total flight covered 12 242 nm in 746 minutes and used 80 714 kg of fuel.
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