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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 156 kt against a target of 175 kt, running 19 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 175 kt.
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,710 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 359 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 28L at KSFO, covering 3 nm in 11 minutes.
During the departure roll on runway 28L, the aircraft used 1,657 m of runway, representing 49 % of the available length, and lifted off at 162 kt. Ambient conditions were 23 °C with a wind of 16 kt from 290°, including a 2 kt cross-wind and a 16 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead San Bruno, California, with the aircraft ascending from 970 ft asl to 36,541 ft asl, an increase of 35,571 ft achieved in 36 minutes while covering 256 nm.
The first cruise segment began 7 mi north-east of KLOE Lovelock Airport, Nevada, and persisted for 242 minutes, during which 2,096 nm were flown.
A subsequent climb started 69 mi north of CTP4 Lac Pau Seaplane Base, Fermont, Quebec, rising from 37,003 ft asl to 38,487 ft asl, a gain of 1,484 ft in 2 minutes over 17 nm.
The following cruise phase originated 74 mi north of the same CTP4 reference point and lasted 210 minutes, covering 1,875 nm.
A third climb began at latitude 54.0000506, longitude -14.1039913, climbing from 38,991 ft asl to 40,372 ft asl, an increase of 1,381 ft in 2 minutes across 14 nm.
The next cruise segment started at latitude 53.8311911, longitude -13.6210747, lasting 65 minutes and spanning 548 nm.
Descent commenced 2 mi east of Ravenoville, Normandy, with the aircraft descending from 40,841 ft asl to 4,111 ft asl, a loss of 36,729 ft in 24 minutes while covering 141 nm.
A brief level cruise followed overhead Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Île-de-France, lasting 2 minutes and covering 5 nm.
The final descent began over Le Plessis-Bouchard, Île-de-France, dropping from 3,999 ft asl to 1,657 ft asl, a decrease of 2,342 ft in 3 minutes across 8 nm.
On final approach to runway 09L at LFPG Charles de Gaulle International Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,365 ft agl to 63 ft agl in 105 seconds and scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 09L, which is 2,710 m long, was achieved with a threshold speed of 135 kt. Touchdown occurred 359 m down the runway at 134 kt, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 338 fpm and a lateral deviation of 3.8 m from the centreline. The total landing distance recorded was 1,342 m, representing 50 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was very good.
Runway rollout continued with very good alignment, bringing the aircraft to a stop safely.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area, covering 2 nm in 7 minutes.
In total, the flight covered 4,973 nm, required 606 minutes of elapsed time, and consumed 57,626 kg of fuel.
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