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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Use smooth aileron to roll the wings level in the first climb segment, holding bank angle near wings-level instead of letting it build to 3.5°.
What happened: The wings held 3.5° of bank through the first climb segment and had drifted to 1° by the second - this early wing-level drift usually carries through into a larger bank excursion later in the climb.
Watch for: Watch the attitude indicator's bank pointer and keep it at wings level throughout the climb.
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 203 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 380 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 155 kt with 4.1° 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 963 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,271 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,210 fpm on average to 963 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 2,495 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 3 m at the widest, and lifted off 2 m right, in 7 kn of crosswind from the left. 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. 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.
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 30 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, 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 11× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 35 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +5 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 136 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
Very poor landing flare
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 129 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 000° at 4 kt · 2 kt tail · 3 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 133 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 21 s, an average deceleration of 0.27 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 53 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 781 m in, 476 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 1,524 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 640 fpm at 57 ft to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.0° 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 1,524 m of the 2,794 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.5 m right at the widest.
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 781 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 787-8 taxied from the parking area to runway 26L at EGKK London Gatwick Airport in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 26L with a take-off roll of 1,188 m (48 % of the runway). Liftoff occurred at 155 kt. Local weather was 24 °C with wind 10 kt from 201°, giving a crosswind component of 8 kt and a headwind component of 5 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 15 seconds, averaging 2,480 fpm and reaching 188 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,280 ft asl to 41,949 ft asl in 29 minutes, covering 198 nm, with brief level-offs at 5,300 ft asl and 6,300 ft asl, starting overhead Charlwood.
Cruise level was 42,000 ft asl for 52 minutes, covering 417 nm, beginning 1 mile east of Valennes.
Descent began from 41,935 ft asl to 3,254 ft asl in 28 minutes, covering 123 nm, starting 13 miles south of LEBL Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport. A level segment at 3,200 ft asl lasted 7 minutes over 6 nm, starting 3 miles north-east of Sant Carles de Peralta. A further descent from 3,266 ft asl to 1,298 ft asl took 3 minutes, covering 8 nm, starting 3 miles east of Santa Eularia des Riu.
The approach to LEIB Ibiza Airport was on runway 24, whose length is 2,794 m. The threshold height at 55 ft agl was slightly above target, and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 142 kt. The aircraft stabilized on final with a perfect runway-touchdown alignment. Touchdown occurred 368 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 129 kt, which was recorded as good. The flare was described as very poor. Touchdown rate was firm at minus 342 fpm. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,409 m (50 % of the runway) and rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather at landing was 24 °C with wind 3 kt from 360°, giving a crosswind component of 3 kt and a tailwind component of 2 kt.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total distance of 758 nm in 127 minutes and used 9,950 kg of fuel.
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