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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Add power earlier on final so you reach 140 kt by the stabilisation gate, not just somewhere later on the approach.
What happened: The aircraft was 9 kt slow at the stabilisation gate, and arriving low on energy that early usually carries through to the threshold, where it crossed 9 kt under the approach speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 140 kt at the gate and 140 kt at the threshold.
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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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 141 kt, 10 kt below the 151 kt target, and lifted off at 153 kt 3.8 s later, the nose coming up at 2.6° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 184 kt target, at 180 kt on average.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 940 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,957 m of runway left; gear up at 65 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,310 fpm on average to 940 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,770 m runway.
Rolled from 95 m in, drifted 2.6 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 38 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 140 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 140 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way.
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 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. 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 31× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 12 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −10 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
Perfect landing flare
6 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 127 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 310° at 10 kt · 7 kt tail · 6 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 37 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 1,612 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 29 ft, 73 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 20 ft, 30 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 345 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 1,612 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 520 fpm at the flare to 150 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.1° 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 1,612 m of the 2,565 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.7 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2.7 m of it down 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 345 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The BBS752PW 757 taxied from the parking area to runway 09L at KATL for eight minutes, covering 1 nm, and then departed. Takeoff used 1,448 m of runway (38 % of runway). Liftoff occurred at 153 kt. Local weather at departure was 15 °C with wind 10 kt from 060°, giving a 5 kt crosswind and a 9 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 22 seconds, averaging 1,953 fpm and reaching 190 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 2,050 ft asl to 32,971 ft asl in 12 minutes, covering 77 nm while remaining overhead KATL. Level cruise at 33,000 ft asl was held for 41 minutes, covering 329 nm, beginning about 1 mile south of Marshallville.
Descent began from 33,001 ft asl to 5,823 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 111 nm, starting 7 mi south-east of 22FA Hidden River Airport, Sarasota. A further climb from 5,715 ft asl to 6,217 ft asl took 2 minutes over 6 nm, beginning 11 mi west of 7FD0 Baptist Emergency Center, Orange Park. The final descent from 6,122 ft asl to 1,308 ft asl lasted 5 minutes, covering 14 nm, starting 4 mi west of the same heliport.
On final approach to runway 10L at KFLL, the aircraft descended from 1,323 ft agl to 34 ft agl in 104 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Configuration was gear down at 2,590 ft agl with 188 kt, and final flap position 6 was selected at 1,695 ft agl with 154 kt.
Landing on runway 10L, which is 2,565 m long, featured a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 131 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 345 m down the runway at 127 kt, with a smooth rate of -146 fpm and very good alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,528 m (60 % of runway) and rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather at KFLL was 22 °C with wind 9 kt from 310°, giving a 6 kt crosswind and a 7 kt tailwind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in three minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The flight covered 546 nm in 89 minutes and used 3,967 kg of fuel.
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