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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 7° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 30° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Adjust your approach path so you touch down at the 457 m aim point instead of beyond it.
What happened: Touchdown point came 119 m past the target, landing at 576 m against the 457 m aim point. Landings that touch down this far beyond the aim point typically leave less runway available for stopping.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
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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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early, and quickly
The nose came up at 140 kt, 7 kt before the 147 kt rotate speed, and rose at 4.1° a second, faster than the 2 to 3 airliners use.
Early and quick together is the classic tail-strike setup: the nose reaches its liftoff attitude before the aircraft has the speed to fly. Wait for the rotate speed, then pull smoothly at the normal rate for this aircraft and let it lift off at its own attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,740 m runway.
Rolled from 146 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.2 m left. Airborne 59 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 670 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 837 m of runway left; gear up at 388 ft, inside the 674 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,770 fpm on average to 670 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with six 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.
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 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 5 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 −1 kt and +2 kt on the approach speed of 134 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,626 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 38 ft, 12 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 576 m in, 271 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 1,626 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 440 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed. Into the flare at 134 kt, on the 134 kt approach speed, and 128 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 1,626 m of the 3,042 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.2 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.5 m left by the end of the rollout. 5 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 128 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 043° at 7 kt · 5 kt head · 5 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 576 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 121 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 37 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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
The B772 taxied from the parking area to the runway for 17 minutes, covering 3 nm, and departed from runway 04R at PHNL Daniel K Inouye International Airport. Take-off used 1,621 m, 59 % of the runway, with rotation at 140 kt. The local weather was 24 °C, wind 15 kt from 060° (crosswind 2 kt, headwind 15 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 20 seconds, averaging 1,624 fpm and reaching 159 kt at the top. The climb continued from 710 ft asl to 35,013 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 159 nm, beginning about 1 mile north-east of PHNL.
Cruise level flight was held between 35,000 ft asl and 39,000 ft asl for 375 minutes, covering 3,146 nm, starting 95 miles north-east of Haiku-Pauwela.
Descent from 39,002 ft asl to 12,018 ft asl took 15 minutes, covering 110 nm, beginning 3 miles south-east of 69TE Deer Pasture Airport Lampasas. A level segment at 12,000 ft asl lasted 8 minutes, covering 38 nm, starting 9 miles north of TS87 Bridle Ridge Airport Navasota. A further descent from 11,604 ft asl to 1,382 ft asl took 15 minutes, covering 56 nm, starting 9 miles north of the same airport, with a brief level-off at 4,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 09 at KIAH George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport began at 1,332 ft agl and descended to 83 ft agl in 111 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. The aircraft was in flap position 6 at 1,866 ft agl and 150 kt.
Landing on runway 09 used the full runway length of 3,042 m. The threshold height was good and the threshold speed was 134 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 140 m beyond the touchdown zone at 127 kt, with a descent rate of minus 155 fpm. The touchdown point was 4.2 m off the centreline. Local weather was 19 °C, wind 5 kt from 049° (crosswind 3 kt, headwind 4 kt). No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,524 m, 50 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the B772 taxied to the parking area for 12 minutes, covering 3 nm. The total flight covered 3,521 nm in 463 minutes and used 55,609 kg of fuel.
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