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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 175 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 155 kt against a target of 175 kt, running 20 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 175 kt.
Arrival
Adjust your approach path so you touch down at the 1,500 ft aim point instead of beyond it.
What happened: Touchdown point came 1,057 ft past the target, landing at 2,557 ft against the 1,500 ft aim point. Landings that touch down this far beyond the aim point typically leave less runway available for stopping.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 1,500 ft from the threshold.
Start to finish · 15 stages, 13 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early, and slowly
The nose came up at 142 kt, 15 kt before the 157 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.3° a second, slower than the 1.5 to 2.3 other Airbus A350-900 pilots fly.
The nose started up before the rotate speed and then came up slowly, as if easing it off early. Wait for the rotate speed, then make one steady pull at the normal rate for this aircraft.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 11,264 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 6 ft right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 47 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 894 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,664 ft of runway left; gear up at 88 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,350 fpm on average to 894 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 1.5 to 2.3° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Airbus A350-900 pilots over the last 180 days (59 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one.
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 0.3 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.3 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 70 ft above the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 20× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 30 ft left of it from 0.3 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +17 kt on the approach speed of 128 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
The flare tracked the target profile closely
The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 2,557 ft past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 6,361 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 40 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 9 ft. Touched down 2,557 ft in, 1,557 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 6,361 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 330 fpm at the flare to 50 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° on the way down. Into the flare at 129 kt, on the 128 kt approach speed, and 123 kt at touchdown.
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 6,361 ft of the 9,863 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 12 ft left at the widest. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 250° at 4 kt · 3 kt head · 2 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 2,557 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 122 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 33 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.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 07R at HAAB Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. The taxi-out required 10 minutes and covered 2 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 07R, using 5,359 ft of runway, which is 48 % of the available length. Liftoff was achieved at 148 kt. Local weather reported a temperature of 80 °F, wind 6 kt from 109°, with a 4 kt crosswind component and a 5 kt headwind component.
Climb began 1 mile east of HAAB, with the airplane ascending from 8,617 ft asl to 39,944 ft asl, a gain of 31,327 ft achieved in 30 minutes while covering 209 nm.
Level cruise was established 6 miles west of Metu, Oromiya Region, Ethiopia, and persisted for 271 minutes, during which the aircraft covered 2,257 nm.
Descent commenced 15 miles north-east of Aboso, Western Region, Ghana, with the aircraft descending from 39,997 ft asl to 1,387 ft asl, a loss of 38,610 ft in 23 minutes over 136 nm.
Final approach to runway 21 at DIAP Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport involved a descent from 1,439 ft agl to 91 ft agl in 108 seconds. The approach was scored on the stabilisation gates.
The Airbus A350-900 landed on runway 21, whose length is 9,834 ft. The threshold speed was recorded at 130 kt. Touchdown occurred 1,098 ft beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 123 kt and a touchdown rate of minus 70 fpm. Local weather at the time was 77 °F with wind 4 kt from 250°, a 3 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind. Total landing distance measured 6,002 ft, representing 61 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 2,611 nm, required 336 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 65,985 lbs of fuel.
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