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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Maintain the centreline
See Departure Roll
A small uncorrected heading error at 40 knots becomes a metre of offset per second by 100 knots, noticed only at rotation, producing a crabbed liftoff. Root cause is nearly always eyes on the tape instead of the far end of the runway. Small heading changes displace a distant point visibly long before the nearby centreline stripes look wrong.
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 11,264 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 22 ft at the widest, and lifted off 22 ft left. Airborne 106 % of the way down the runway, past 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 943 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft 4,432 ft past the runway end; gear up at 62 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,060 fpm on average to 943 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.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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.
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 0.7 nm, about 260 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the centreline.
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 100 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, 1,000 ft 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 12× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.9 nm, then drifted 100 ft right between 0.9 and 0.7 nm, then inside the band from 0.7 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +8 kt and +17 kt on the approach speed of 142 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 tracked the target profile exactly
The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 2,082 ft past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,292 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 64 ft, 14 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 32 ft. Touched down 2,082 ft in, 1,082 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,292 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 760 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.9° on the way down. Into the flare at 149 kt, 7 kt over the 142 kt approach speed, and 140 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 5,292 ft of the 13,290 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 12 ft left at the widest. 3 kt across from the left, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 140 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 010° at 6 kt · 4 kt head · 3 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 2,082 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 138 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxied from the parking area to runway 07R at HAAB Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in 11 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 07R, the aircraft utilized a takeoff distance of 11,836 ft, representing 105 % of the runway length, and achieved a liftoff speed of 156 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 79 °F, wind from 070° at 3 kt, with a headwind component of 3 kt and no crosswind.
The en-route climb commenced 3 mi east of HAAB, where the airplane ascended from 8,587 ft asl to 35,884 ft asl, a gain of 27,297 ft achieved in 18 minutes while covering 121 nm.
Level cruise began 13 mi west of Bichena (Amhara Region, Ethiopia) and continued for 155 minutes, during which the flight traversed 1,197 nm.
Descent operations started 16 mi east of Abu Qurqas (Muhafazat al Minya, Egypt), with the aircraft descending from 35,497 ft asl to 1,771 ft asl, a loss of 33,726 ft in 24 minutes and a distance of 127 nm.
The final approach to runway 05C at HECA Cairo International Airport involved a descent from 1,479 ft agl to 124 ft agl over 94 seconds, and the approach was scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 05C, which is 13,290 ft long, occurred with a threshold height of 65 ft agl above target and a threshold speed slightly above target at 150 kt. Touchdown was recorded 719 ft beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 140 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 198 fpm; runway-touchdown alignment was perfect. Local weather reported a temperature of 78 °F, wind from 010° at 6 kt, a crosswind component of 3 kt and a headwind component of 4 kt.
The aircraft’s rollout covered a total landing distance of 5,029 ft, representing 38 % of the runway, and the runway-rollout alignment was judged very good.
After exiting the runway, the airplane taxied to the parking area in 5 minutes, traveling 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,457 nm, required 213 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 15,968 lb of fuel.
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