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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Start bringing the nose up as the speed reaches 159 kt, then pitch for 166 kt in the climb.
What happened: You started the rotation at 184 kt, 25 kt past the 159 kt rotation speed, and that extra speed usually carries into the climb, which was 27 kt fast as well.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 159 kt at rotation, 166 kt in the climb
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 12 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 29 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 27 stages, 23 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 184 kt, 25 kt above the 159 kt target, and lifted off at 189 kt 2.0 s later, the nose coming up at 3.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 193 kt, 27 kt over its 166 kt target.
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 763 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 682 m of runway left; gear up at 424 ft, inside the 698 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,770 fpm on average to 763 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 3,641 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 5.8 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 70 % 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.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 159 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 159 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way.
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 40 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 6 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 40 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −14 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 wandered off the target profile. The flare began at 10 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 249 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 146 kt. Touched down with the nose 2° into wind, wings level.
Wind 010° at 4 kt · 2 kt head · 3 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 73 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 s, an average deceleration of 0.07 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 1,660 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 34 ft, 16 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 10 ft. Touched down 249 m in, 55 m short of 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 1,660 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 610 fpm at the flare to 350 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.7° 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 1,660 m of the 3,284 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 13 m left of the centreline and drifted to 22 m left on 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 249 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.75 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 25R at KLAX Los Angeles International Airport in 10 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was executed on runway 25R with a ground roll of 2,562 m, representing 70 % of the available runway. Rotation was achieved at 184 kt. Ambient conditions were 27 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 252°, giving a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 3 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced one mile north-west of El Segundo, lifting the aircraft from 966 ft asl to 29,995 ft asl, an altitude gain of 29,029 ft in 17 minutes while covering 108 nm.
The first cruise segment began 36 nm south-west of KNSI San Nicolas Island Nolf Airport and continued for 50 minutes, during which 388 nm were flown.
A second climb started at latitude 28.025713, longitude -124.9766617, raising the aircraft from 30,002 ft asl to 30,995 ft asl, a gain of 993 ft in 2 minutes over 12 nm.
The subsequent cruise leg originated at latitude 27.8777409, longitude -125.1613388 and lasted 42 minutes, covering 342 nm.
A third climb was logged at latitude 24.0704651, longitude -129.9164581, increasing altitude from 31,004 ft asl to 31,897 ft asl, a rise of 893 ft in 2 minutes while traversing 13 nm.
The following cruise phase began at latitude 23.9162426, longitude -130.1091309, extending for 180 minutes and encompassing 1,531 nm.
Climb number four started at latitude 6.9890337, longitude -150.0108337, lifting the aircraft from 32,000 ft asl to 33,997 ft asl, an increase of 1,997 ft in 2 minutes across 13 nm.
Cruise segment five originated at latitude 6.8210096, longitude -150.1810303, lasting 227 minutes and covering 1,907 nm.
The fifth climb began 69 nm east of NFTP Kuini Lavenia Airport, raising the aircraft from 34,000 ft asl to 35,132 ft asl, a gain of 1,132 ft in 2 minutes while flying 13 nm.
The next cruise leg started 60 nm east of NFTP Kuini Lavenia Airport and continued for 157 minutes, during which 1,309 nm were covered.
Descent phase one was initiated 58 nm north-east of NZOX Okiwi Station Airport, descending from 36,003 ft asl to 2,936 ft asl, a loss of 33,067 ft in 22 minutes over 132 nm.
A brief cruise followed 9 nm west of Titirangi, lasting 4 minutes and spanning 11 nm.
Descent phase two began 9 nm south-west of Titirangi, dropping from 2,770 ft asl to 1,296 ft asl, a decrease of 1,474 ft in 3 minutes across 8 nm.
The first final approach to runway 05R at NZAA Auckland International Airport reduced altitude from 1,311 ft agl to 77 ft agl in 97 seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
A go-around was executed on runway 05R at NZAA at 35 ft agl.
A second final approach to runway 05R at NZAA brought the aircraft from 1,335 ft agl to 64 ft agl in 102 seconds, again scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 05R at NZAA, which is 3,284 m long, featured a threshold speed of 146 kt, a touchdown distance of 300 m, and a touchdown speed of 146 kt. The touchdown rate was minus 244 fpm and the touchdown point was misaligned by 16.6 m from the centreline. Local weather reported a temperature of 16 °C, wind 4 kt from 10°, with a 4 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Rollout distance totaled 1,615 m, representing 49 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was off by 29.0 m from the centreline.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 10 minutes, covering 2 nm.
In total, the flight covered 5,852 nm, took 750 minutes, and consumed 102,069 kg of fuel.
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