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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 20°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections to track a point at the far end of the runway and close the offset before touchdown.
What happened: You touched down with the centreline offset by 7.1 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline alignment, keeping offset inside the limit.
Speed at this height is usually bought with gradient. It's rarely dangerous and it's often just an early acceleration, but with flaps still out you may be heading towards the flap limit and a flat fast climb puts you at the acceleration altitude with the cleaning-up still to do.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 128 kt, 24 kt below the 152 kt target, and lifted off at 130 kt 1.7 s later, the nose coming up at 4.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 207 kt, 33 kt over its 174 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 550 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 654 m of runway left; gear up at 146 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 910 fpm on average to 550 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 3,211 m runway.
Rolled from 190 m in, drifted 3.3 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 67 % 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 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 60 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 10× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 36 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 −6 kt and +17 kt on the approach speed of 133 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 2 times on the way down. Touchdown was 534 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
From 111 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.20 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 30 ft, 84 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 19 ft, 31 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 534 m in, 229 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 1,524 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 630 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.3° 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 3,096 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.2 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.4 m right by the end of 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.
Touched down 534 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Miami International Airport (KMIA), the Boeing 787-8 initiated its takeoff roll on runway 08R, covering 2,156 meters, which represented 67% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 130 knots, overcoming the local weather conditions of a temperature of 35 degrees Celsius. Following a 13-minute taxiing period from the parking to the runway, the aircraft had successfully departed the ground.
As the aircraft climbed to its enroute level, it began its ascent from 575 feet above sea level to 40,994 feet, a vertical increase of 40,420 feet, in 21 minutes and covering 152 nautical miles. The climb phase concluded 1 mile south of Brownsville, Florida. The aircraft then entered a 67-minute cruise phase, covering 550 nautical miles, before initiating its descent 2 miles west of Samaná El Catey International Airport (MDCY) in the Dominican Republic. The descent phase saw the aircraft decrease its altitude from 40,993 feet to 5,236 feet in 23 minutes and covering 140 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a brief level cruise phase, lasting 2 minutes, before commencing its final descent 2 miles southwest of Baigua Airport (MDBG) in the Dominican Republic.
The Boeing 787-8 completed its final approach to runway 08 at Punta Cana International Airport (MDPC), aligning with the runway from the west at a heading of 74.0 degrees. The aircraft landed on the runway, with a touchdown point 239 meters beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 126 knots and a touchdown rate of -199 feet per minute. The total landing distance was 1,191 meters, representing 38% of the runway length. Following a 5-minute taxiing period from the runway to the parking, the aircraft had completed its journey, covering a total distance of 873 nautical miles and consuming 8,655 kilograms of fuel in the process, which took a total of 137 minutes.
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