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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 175 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 154 kt against a target of 175 kt, running 21 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 175 kt.
Arrival
Apply small rudder corrections at touchdown, aiming at a point at the far end of the runway, to stay on the centreline.
What happened: Touchdown drifted 8 m off the centreline, and landings like this usually carry that drift into the rollout, where the alignment error grew to 8.6 m.
Watch for: Runway centreline: aircraft tracking directly over it through touchdown and rollout.
A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 25 stages, 23 in the score
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,774 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,774 m of the 3,014 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 529 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 30L at KMSP Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in 5 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 30L with a takeoff distance of 2,106 m, which was 69 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 153 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 21 °C, wind 16 kt from 280°, giving a crosswind component of 6 kt and a headwind component of 15 kt.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 18 seconds, averaging 2,367 fpm and reaching 156 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,819 ft asl to 33,970 ft asl in 28 minutes, covering 172 nm, beginning the climb about 1 mile east of Richfield.
A climb from 38,000 ft asl to 40,002 ft asl followed in 5 minutes, covering 37 nm, starting from latitude 38.0280581, longitude 160.1953641.
Cruise was conducted at 34,000-38,000 ft asl for 565 minutes, covering 4,466 nm, beginning about 9 miles west of New Effington. The aircraft then level-flew at 40,000 ft asl for 113 minutes, covering 852 nm, starting from latitude 38.0349039, longitude 159.3049108.
Descent began from 39,999 ft asl and proceeded to 1,288 ft asl in 30 minutes, covering 154 nm, starting 57 miles east of Kashima-shi, with brief level-offs at 8,000 ft asl and 4,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 34R at RJTT Tokyo Haneda International Airport descended from 1,302 ft agl to 62 ft agl in 102 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. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 2,865 ft agl with 166 kt, and final flap position 4 at 2,495 ft agl with 156 kt.
Landing on runway 34R, which is 3,014 m long, had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 140 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 105 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 137 kt, noted as a little fast, with a smooth touchdown rate of minus 142 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 8.0 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 22 °C, wind 11 kt from 030°, giving a crosswind component of 9 kt and a headwind component of 5 kt. No bounce occurred.
The total landing distance was 1,686 m, which is 56 % of the runway, and the rollout was slightly misaligned by 8.6 m from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 7 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 5,691 nm in 759 minutes and used 78,279 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A350-900 approached runway 34R at RJTT from the south-east on a heading of 330.0° at 4 nm and 1,250 ft agl, descending from 1,302 ft agl to 62 ft agl in 102 seconds. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and speed all within limits, and the pilot was scored on the stabilisation gates.
At threshold the aircraft maintained a good threshold speed of 140 kt and the flare produced a touchdown point 106 m beyond the touchdown zone. Touchdown speed was 137 kt, noted as a little fast, while the vertical rate was good at minus 197 fpm; however the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.8 m from the centreline.
The aircraft rolled out after touching down, covering a total landing distance of 1,686 m, which is 56 % of the 3,014 m runway length. The landing distance remained well within the available runway.
During rollout the aircraft remained slightly misaligned, drifting 9.2 m from the centreline. Local weather was 22 °C with wind 11 kt from 30°, giving a 9 kt cross-wind component and a 5 kt head-wind component.
Focus on tighter centreline control during the flare and touchdown to reduce the 8-9 m lateral deviation, and refine speed management to keep touchdown speed at or below the 140 kt threshold. These adjustments will help convert the solid 76.5 % score into a higher performance rating.
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