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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Use small rudder inputs against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout.
What happened: During the rollout the aircraft drifted 9.1 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 137 kt, 7 kt below the 144 kt target, and lifted off at 157 kt 4.3 s later, the nose coming up at 2.2° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 179 kt target, at 178 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 903 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,285 m of runway left; gear up at 126 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,570 fpm on average to 903 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 2,695 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 3.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.9 m right. Airborne 42 % 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 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 160 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, 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 21× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 17 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 +4 kt and +18 kt on the approach speed of 135 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
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 358° at 11 kt · 11 kt head · 2 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 121 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 34 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.
Side view — the last 1,621 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 43 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 37 ft. Touched down 532 m in, 227 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 1,621 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 730 fpm at the flare to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.8° 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 1,621 m of the 3,595 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.7 m right of the centreline and drifted to 10 m right on the rollout, back to 1 m right by the end.
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.
Touched down 532 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 05R at EDDL Düsseldorf Airport, a movement that lasted 9 minutes and covered 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 05R with a take-off roll of 1,131 m, representing 42 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 137 kt. Local weather at departure was 13 °C with wind 4 kt from 080°, giving a 2 kt crosswind and a 4 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 19 seconds, averaging 2,465 fpm and reaching 177 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,148 ft asl to 32,985 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 122 nm, beginning about 1 mile north-east of Düsseldorf.
Cruise was level at 33,000 ft asl for 25 minutes, covering 188 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-east of Kahl am Main.
Descent began from 32,999 ft asl to 1,944 ft asl in 40 minutes, covering 198 nm, starting about 1 mile east of Zichovice, with brief level-offs at 10,900 ft asl and 6,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 34 at LOWW Vienna International Airport descended from 1,406 ft agl to 89 ft agl in 108 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration on final was flap 8 at 990 ft agl with an airspeed of 144 kt.
Landing on runway 34 was on a runway 3,595 m long with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 140 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 108 m beyond the touchdown zone at 132 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 190 fpm, both judged good. Touchdown position was slightly off centreline by 5.7 m. No bounce was observed.
Total landing distance was 1,532 m, 43 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 9.1 m. Local weather at landing was 13 °C with wind 11 kt from 358°, giving a 3 kt crosswind and an 11 kt headwind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 7 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 516 nm in 101 minutes and used 4,172 kg of fuel.
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