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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 4,101 m runway.
Rolled from 73 m in, drifted 7.2 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 35 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 902 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,280 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,360 fpm on average to 902 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 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 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at: a trace steeper than both is a faster rotation, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 9.7°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 35 kt above the approach speed of 138 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 21 kt above the approach speed of 138 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, gear up until 2.7 nm, high until 2.4 nm, sinking too fast until 1.8 nm, right of the centreline until 1.7 nm and banked until 1.3 nm.
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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 3.3 nm, then high to 2.4 nm (up to 390 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 734 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 1.7 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +83 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 strayed well off the target profile
The flare arrested the sink and then let it come back - 1,107 fpm of it - so the aircraft dropped the last few feet. Touchdown was 1,713 m past the threshold. Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 3,466 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 75 ft, 25 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 35 ft; ballooned 2 ft from 28 ft. Touched down 1,713 m in, 1,408 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 3,466 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 120 fpm before coming down at 960 fpm to touch. The nose went down 1.2° on the way down. Into the flare at 198 kt, 60 kt over the 138 kt approach speed, and 195 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 3,466 m of the 4,247 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 20 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 6.3 m left by the end of the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 5° left of the track, 3.1° of bank.
Wind 259° at 7 kt · 7 kt head · 1 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 1,713 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.83 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 200 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 52 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 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
Departing from OMAA Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi, the Boeing 787-9 began its journey with a taxiing period of 11 minutes, covering 4 nautical miles to reach the runway. As it rolled down runway 31L, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 154 knots, clearing the ground in a distance of 1,453 meters, which accounted for 35% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 43°C, with a gentle headwind of 3 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of Abu Dhabi, it began its enroute climb, reaching an altitude of 8,993 feet above sea level in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 13 nautical miles. The climb continued in stages, with the aircraft reaching a cruising altitude of 41,007 feet above sea level after a 19-minute climb from 9,364 feet. The aircraft then entered a prolonged level cruise phase, lasting 146 minutes, during which it covered a distance of 1,195 nautical miles. The descent phase began 9 miles south of Aland, India, and the aircraft touched down on runway 27L at VOHS Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, after a total flight distance of 1,576 nautical miles.
The landing was marked by a number of performance issues, including a touchdown speed of 195 knots, which was excessively fast, and a touchdown rate of -802 feet per minute, which was very heavy. The runway touchdown position was also significantly misaligned by 19.2 meters from the centerline. The aircraft used a total of 18,663 kilograms of fuel during the flight, which lasted 228 minutes. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking 5 minutes to cover a distance of 1 nautical mile.
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