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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 183 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 33 kt fast at 216 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 183 kt in the climb
Arrival
Begin raising the nose earlier, by 11 ft, so the flare has time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 6.8 ft, 4.4 ft below the normal band, and a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and start the flare in the normal band, around 11 ft.
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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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, 4 kt below the 148 kt target, and lifted off at 157 kt 3.4 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 averaged 216 kt, 33 kt over its 183 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 924 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,954 m of runway left; gear up at 33 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,890 fpm on average to 924 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 3,791 m runway.
Rolled from 79 m in, never more than 0.7 m off the centreline. Airborne 37 % 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 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 190 ft below the slope.
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 16× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 24 m off the centreline.
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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +7 kt and +10 kt on the approach speed of 138 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 held the target profile well. The flare began at 7 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 545 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 090° at 3 kt · 1 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.
From 141 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 44 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 1,776 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 51 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 7 ft. Touched down 545 m in, 240 m past 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 1,776 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 330 fpm at the flare to 210 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 1,776 m of the 3,890 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.2 m of it down 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.
Touched down 545 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxied from the parking area to runway 36L at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol for 12 minutes, covering 4 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 36L with a takeoff roll of 1,426 m, using 38 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 144 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 13 °C, wind 4 kt from 060°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 27 seconds, averaging 1,830 fpm and reaching 226 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 983 ft asl to 36,670 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 125 nm, beginning 1 mile north-east of Vijfhuizen.
The aircraft levelled at 37,000 ft asl for 68 minutes, covering 503 nm, beginning 2 miles south of Wuelfrath.
Descent from 36,966 ft asl to 1,311 ft asl lasted 26 minutes and covered 131 nm, beginning 1 mile north of Subbiano.
On final approach to runway 16L at LIRF Rome-Fiumicino, descent from 1,349 ft agl to 82 ft agl was completed in 97 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 changes were: landing gear down at 2,339 ft agl at 230 kt, and final flap position 8 at 2,183 ft agl at 155 kt.
Landing on runway 16L (runway length 3,890 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 147 kt. The flare was described as great but started late. Touchdown occurred 131 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 142 kt, noted as a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 213 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was perfect. Local weather at landing was temperature 16 °C, wind 3 kt from 090°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and a 1 kt headwind. No bounce was observed.
The total landing distance was 1,700 m, 44 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area for 7 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 773 nm in 132 minutes and used 4,745 kg of fuel.
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