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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Make one smooth, continuous back-pressure through the flare to about 1.8° nose-up, holding it steady rather than pumping the elevator before touchdown.
What happened: The flare was pumped, with pitch reversing several times as the sink was most arrested at 3.1 ft; pumped flares like this usually carry through to a firm touchdown, which happened here at 237 fpm.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: hold a steady nose-up pitch of 1.8° through the flare, smoothly to touchdown.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 144 kt, 6 kt above the 138 kt target, and lifted off at 152 kt 1.9 s later, the nose coming up at 5.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 179 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 924 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,262 m of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,830 fpm on average to 924 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 2,637 m runway.
Rolled from 45 m in, drifted 3.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 43 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then not again: low from 0.3 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 60 ft under).
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 5× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 73 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 33 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 −0 kt and +16 kt on the approach speed of 131 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
The flare held the target profile well. The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 3 times on the way down. Touchdown was 348 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 360° at 1 kt · 0 kt tail · 0 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 129 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 13 s, an average deceleration of 0.39 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.
Began the flare at 40 ft, 299 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 348 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 1,524 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 170 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at 3 ft, then back up to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.0° 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 3,743 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.2 m left of the centreline, and stayed within 2.4 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 348 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 departed from runway 11 at LTCG Trabzon International Airport. The take-off roll was 1,143 m, 43 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 144 kt. Local weather was 19 °C, wind 2 kt from 209°, with 1 kt cross-wind and no head-wind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 16 seconds, averaging 2,607 fpm and reaching 187 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,079 ft asl to 40,696 ft asl in 39 minutes, covering 303 nm, beginning about 1 mile east of the departure airport.
Cruise was level at 41,000 ft asl for 107 minutes, covering 876 nm, starting roughly 5 miles east of Ganja. Descent began from 40,771 ft asl to 2,720 ft asl in 24 minutes, covering 172 nm, with the descent point 49 miles east of UTTM Muruntau Southeast Airport.
Final approach was to runway 26R at UTTT Tashkent International Airport. From 1,369 ft agl the aircraft descended to 45 ft agl in 99 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. The landing gear was down at 5,268 ft agl at 277 kt; the final flap position 8 was selected at 1,520 ft agl at 163 kt.
Landing on runway 26R was performed with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 131 kt. The flare was described as great, with the pitch being pumped up and down. Touchdown occurred 348 m down the runway at 126 kt, with a fair rate of -238 fpm and very good alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 827 m, 22 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight distance was 1,357 nm, the elapsed time 176 minutes, and fuel consumption was 7,723 kg.
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