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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 170 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 138 kt against a target of 170 kt, running 32 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 170 kt.
Arrival
Smooth out your control inputs through touchdown and rollout, easing the controls rather than snapping them to avoid sharp g spikes.
What happened: Average g force through the landing came out at 1.1 g, well above the smooth, steady loading expected through touchdown and rollout.
Watch for: G-force meter: hold it within the normal smooth range through touchdown and rollout.
See Arrival Landing
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 8,497 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,987 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A320neo taxied from the parking area to runway 28L at KSFO, a movement that required 9 minutes and covered 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 28L, the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 6,356 ft, representing 57 % of the runway, and rotated at 145 kt. Ambient conditions were 58 °F with a wind of 2 kt from 312°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead San Bruno, with altitude increasing from 851 ft asl to 37,911 ft asl-a gain of 37,060 ft-over 23 minutes while covering 142 nm.
The first level cruise began 2 miles west of Corning and lasted 19 minutes, during which 141 nm were flown.
Descent started 3 miles north-east of Klamath Falls, descending from 37,953 ft asl to 23,474 ft asl, a loss of 14,479 ft in 21 minutes and covering 117 nm.
A second cruise segment originated 5 miles west of 00S McKenzie Bridge State Airport Blue River, lasting 10 minutes and spanning 47 nm.
The next descent began 11 miles east of Scotts Mills, dropping from 21,923 ft asl to 12,114 ft asl, a decrease of 9,809 ft over 12 minutes and covering 48 nm.
A further cruise phase started overhead Cherry Grove, persisted for 17 minutes and included 56 nm of flight.
Descent resumed 6 miles south-east of Bucoda, falling from 11,991 ft asl to 2,947 ft asl, a reduction of 9,044 ft in 10 minutes while traveling 33 nm.
The final cruise segment began 1 mile north-west of Puyallup, lasted 4 minutes and covered 11 nm.
On final approach to runway 34L at KSEA, the aircraft descended from 1,311 ft agl to 32 ft agl in 103 seconds, and the flight was scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 34L, which is 8,490 ft long, was achieved with a threshold speed of 136 kt. Touchdown occurred 574 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 128 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 274 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. Local weather reported 58 °F, wind 5 kt from 182°, no cross-wind and a 5 kt tail-wind component.
The total landing distance recorded was 4,292 ft, representing 51 % of the runway, and the runway rollout alignment was perfect.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 11 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 606 nm, required 139 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 7,643 lb of fuel.
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