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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 12°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Below a thousand feet the aeroplane is slow, heavy and close to the ground. A steep turn loses lift, raises the stall speed and flattens the climb just when the gradient matters most. A normal turn on course is a rate one — fifteen degrees or so, twenty-five at the outside, this penalty is to acknowledge when a turn has stopped being a turn and become a manoeuvre.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 8,654 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 17 ft right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 80 % of the way down the runway, past 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 808 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 719 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,380 fpm on average to 808 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 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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
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 40 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 15× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 80 ft 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −0 kt and +7 kt on the approach speed of 144 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
Good landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 51 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,335 ft in, 335 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 5,000 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 450 fpm at 48 ft to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.8° on the way down. Into 48 ft at 145 kt, on the 144 kt approach speed, and 144 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 5,000 ft of the 9,830 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 ft right of the centreline, and stayed within 9 ft of it down the rollout. Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 060° at 10 kt · 10 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.
The 1,335 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 142 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 49 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 flight in question was operated by a Boeing 787-9 aircraft. The aircraft began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 15 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 22R at John F. Kennedy International Airport (KJFK), with the aircraft taking off after covering a distance of 6,874 feet, which was 79% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 166 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 49°F and a wind speed of 8 knots from a direction of 199°. The crosswind component was minimal, at 1 knot, while the headwind component was 8 knots. As the aircraft climbed to its initial cruising altitude, it encountered a series of enroute climbs and level cruises, with the first enroute climb taking place overhead Arverne, New York, where the aircraft climbed from an altitude of 868 feet above sea level (asl) to 36,588 ft asl, an increase of 35,720 feet in 11 minutes and covering a distance of 238 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 9 minutes and covered a distance of 290 nautical miles. This was followed by another enroute climb, which took place over a location with latitude 33.2543364 and longitude -67.3890539, where the aircraft climbed from 37,264 ft asl to 38,274 ft asl, an increase of 1,009 feet in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 54 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted for 76 minutes and covered a distance of 1,360 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued to follow a series of enroute climbs and level cruises, with the next descent taking place over a location with latitude 11.6970222 and longitude -56.8531339, where the aircraft descended from 39,291 ft asl to 36,809 ft asl, a decrease of 2,482 feet in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 14 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted for 36 minutes and covered a distance of 299 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued to climb and cruise, with the next enroute climb taking place 48 miles north of Paramaribo, Suriname, where the aircraft climbed from 36,293 ft asl to 38,360 ft asl, an increase of 2,067 feet in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 37 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted for 353 minutes and covered a distance of 454 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued to climb and cruise, with the next enroute climb taking place 11 miles south of Águia Branca do Paru Airport, Almeirim, Brazil, where the aircraft climbed from 38,461 ft asl to 40,106 ft asl, an increase of 1,645 feet in 2 minutes and covering a distance of 55 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted for 73 minutes and covered a distance of 1,225 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its descent, with the first descent taking place 7 miles south of Botelhos, Brazil, where the aircraft descended from 40,252 ft asl to 17,801 ft asl, a decrease of 22,450 feet in 7 minutes and covering a distance of 54 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted for 319 minutes and covered a distance of 4 nautical miles.
The aircraft continued to descend,
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