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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Avoid steep turns at low altitude
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 158 kt with 4.5° of pitch.
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 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 967 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,758 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,000 fpm on average to 967 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.
Plan view the roll down the 3,403 m runway.
Rolled from 35 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 6 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.7 m right. Airborne 41 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
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 20 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 6 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +99 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
8 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 136 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 330° at 9 kt · 2 kt head · 8 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 135 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 64 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 2,976 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 305 m in, close to 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 2,976 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 grew from 380 fpm at 44 ft to 500 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.7° on the way down.
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 2,976 m of the 3,998 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.6 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.7 m right by the end of 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.
The 305 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 13 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, an Airbus A350-1000, then departed from runway 03R at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (LGAV). The takeoff distance was 1,380 meters, which accounted for 41% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 158 knots, and the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 17°C, a wind speed of 2 knots at 90°, and a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 1 knot.
As the aircraft climbed to its cruising altitude, it started its enroute climb 1 mile south-west of Artemida, Attica, Greece. The climb from 1,318 feet above sea level to 40,282 feet above sea level, an increase of 38,964 feet, took 18 minutes and covered a distance of 120 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise then started 8 miles east of Santorini Airport (LGSR) on the island of Santorini, Greece, and lasted for 14 minutes, covering a distance of 362 nautical miles.
The enroute descent started 37 miles north of Rosetta, Beheira Governorate, Egypt, and the aircraft descended from 40,657 feet above sea level to 26,569 feet above sea level, a decrease of 14,088 feet, in 5 minutes and covered a distance of 53 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise then started 12 miles north-west of Shirbin, Muhafazat ad Daqahliyah, Egypt, and lasted for 87 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile.
The aircraft then started its enroute climb 12 miles north-west of Shirbin, Muhafazat ad Daqahliyah, Egypt, and climbed from 26,360 feet above sea level to 27,360 feet above sea level, an increase of 1,000 feet, in 2 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The enroute descent then started 7 miles north-west of Shirbin, Muhafazat ad Daqahliyah, Egypt, and the aircraft descended from 27,529 feet above sea level to 7,282 feet above sea level, a decrease of 20,247 feet, in 10 minutes and covered a distance of 55 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise then started 4 miles east of Z10T Bilbays 2, Bilbays, Muhafazat ash Sharqiyah, Egypt, and lasted for 3 minutes, covering a distance of 16 nautical miles. The enroute descent then started 7 miles south-east of HE12 Inshas Air Base, Inshas, Muhafazat ash Sharqiyah, Egypt, and the aircraft descended from 6,838 feet above sea level to 1,745 feet above sea level, a decrease of 5,093 feet, in 8 minutes and covered a distance of 13 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 05R at Cairo International Airport (HECA) was made from the south-west, heading 49.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,382 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 05R was successful, with a touchdown distance of 304 meters and a touchdown speed of 136 knots, which was slightly fast. The touchdown rate was hard at -496 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.4 meters from the centreline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 19°C, a wind speed of 9 knots at
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