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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce power to hold the correct climb speed from the start of the climb.
What happened: During the initial climb, the aircraft was flown faster than the target climb speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: the normal climb speed band during the climb
Arrival
Close the throttles earlier on final so you cross the threshold at 155 kt rather than carrying excess speed.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 179 kt, 24 kt above the 155 kt target, and the nose was then only raised 0.4° in the flare, taking out little of the sink. Crossing the threshold fast like this usually carries extra energy into a flare that barely arrests the sink, and that combination usually ends in a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 155 kt at the threshold.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 10 stages, 10 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 112 kt, 48 kt below the 160 kt target, and lifted off at 137 kt 6.1 s later, the nose coming up at 1.2° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 180 kt target, at 176 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 892 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 156 m of runway left; gear up at 12 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,830 fpm on average to 892 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 2,141 m runway.
Rolled from 408 m in, never more than 0.8 m off the centreline. Airborne 71 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 39 kt above the approach speed of 155 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: gear still up, sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, wings more than 10° from level and speed more than 23 kt above the approach speed of 155 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, gear up until 1.5 nm, sinking too fast until 1.3 nm, right of the centreline from 1.0 nm, low from 0.5 nm and banked from 0.2 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 80 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 3.3 nm, then drifted 111 m right between 3.3 and 2.5 nm, then back inside it from 2.5 to 1.0 nm, then 76 m right of it from 1.0 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 39 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +81 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 strayed well off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.4° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 180 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, 11° of bank.
Wind 209° at 4 kt · 4 kt head · 2 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 31 ft, 19 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 18 ft. Touched down 180 m in, 125 m short of 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 stayed between 900 fpm and 980 fpm from the flare to the runway. 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 1,585 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.8 m right of the centreline.
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 180 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.84 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 787-10 taxied to runway 29 at KRDM Roberts Field and commenced the departure roll. The aircraft used a takeoff distance of 1,527 m, representing 71 % of the available runway, and lifted off at 137 kt. Ambient temperature was 7 °C with a wind from 150° at 4 kt, a 2 kt crosswind component and a 4 kt tailwind component.
During the initial climb the aircraft passed overhead Redmond, Oregon, climbing from 4,026 ft asl to 6,489 ft asl. The altitude gain of 2,463 ft was achieved in 1 minute while covering 3 nm.
A subsequent climb segment began 1 mile north-west of 3OR8 Cline Falls Air Park, Redmond. The airplane rose from 4,467 ft asl to 4,821 ft asl, an increase of 354 ft accomplished over 3 minutes and a distance of 10 nm.
The descent phase started 2 miles south of Terrebonne, Oregon. The aircraft descended from 6,481 ft asl to 4,498 ft asl, a loss of 1,983 ft in 2 minutes while traversing 5 nm.
For the final approach the airplane was aligned with runway 16 at KBDN Bend Municipal Airport, approaching from the north on a heading of 182.0°. At 4 nm from the threshold the aircraft was at 1,387 ft agl.
Landing was executed on runway 16, whose length is 1,585 m. The threshold speed was recorded at 179 kt, while touchdown occurred at 176 kt. Touchdown distance measured 184 m, the vertical speed was minus 693 fpm, and the touchdown point was offset 6.8 m from the centreline. Local conditions were 9 °C, wind from 209° at 4 kt, a 2 kt crosswind component and a 3 kt headwind component.
Overall, the flight covered 24 nm, required 7 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 1,000 kg of fuel.
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