Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
On the roll, make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline within 19 ft.
What happened: The takeoff roll drifted off the centreline by 19 ft, and excess bank then carried through all three climb segments. A drifted roll like this usually leads into wandering bank angle through the climb.
Watch for: Watch the heading indicator and runway centreline during the roll, and the attitude indicator for wings level through the climb.
See Departure RollDeparture Climb 1Departure Climb 2Departure Climb 3
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 · 23 stages, 21 in the score
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 159 kt with 7.1° of pitch.
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 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 924 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 6,203 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,720 fpm on average to 924 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 11,316 ft runway.
Rolled from 79 ft in, drifted 19 ft right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 9 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 37 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then not again: low from 0.3 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 60 ft under).
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 17× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 70 ft 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +4 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 129 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
14 kt across from the right, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 122 kt. Touched down with the nose 10° into wind, wings level.
Wind 320° at 19 kt · 12 kt head · 14 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 105 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,647 ft in, 647 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 5,000 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 280 fpm at 23 ft to 50 fpm at 6 ft, then back up to 210 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.4° 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 5,000 ft of the 7,461 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 43 ft left of the centreline, and steered back to 13 ft 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.
The 1,647 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 14 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, an Airbus A300-600R, then departed from runway 27 at Miami International Airport (KMIA). The takeoff distance was 4,214 feet, which was 37% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 160 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it encountered local weather conditions with a temperature of 76°F and winds of 20 knots at 299°. The crosswind was 11 knots, and the headwind was 17 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile north of Flagami, Florida, and the aircraft climbed from 981 feet above sea level to 10,648 feet above sea level, an increase of 9,667 feet in 6 minutes, covering a distance of 24 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 8 miles west of the Baptist Emergency Center Clay Heliport in Orange Park, Florida, and lasted 3 minutes, covering 19 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another enroute climb 12 miles south of Okeelanta Airport in South Bay, Florida, and climbed from 11,070 feet above sea level to 36,034 feet above sea level, an increase of 24,964 feet in 18 minutes, covering a distance of 124 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 4 miles southwest of Polk City, Florida, and lasted 136 minutes, covering 929 nautical miles. As the aircraft continued its journey, it encountered a change in weather conditions, and the enroute descent started overhead Lowell Airport in Lowell, Indiana. The aircraft descended from 36,001 feet above sea level to 3,998 feet above sea level, a decrease of 32,003 feet in 12 minutes, covering a distance of 61 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 14 miles north of Gary, Indiana, and lasted 2 minutes, covering 5 nautical miles. The enroute descent started 16 miles east of Chicago Meigs Airport in Chicago, Illinois, and the aircraft descended from 3,998 feet above sea level to 2,204 feet above sea level, a decrease of 1,794 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 9 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 10 miles east of Near North Side, Illinois, and lasted 10 minutes, covering 19 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 28L at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (KORD) was from the east, heading 270.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,460 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 28L at KORD was successful, with a touchdown point 244 feet beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed was slightly above the target at 135 knots, and the touchdown speed was a little fast at 122 knots. The touchdown rate was good at -167 feet per minute. However, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 43 feet from the centreline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 19°F and winds of 21 knots at 320°. The crosswind was 16 knots, and the headwind was 14 knots. The total landing distance was 3,543 feet, which was 47% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 43 feet from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking from the runway, which took 15 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The total flight distance was 1,200 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 220 minutes. The aircraft used 36,950 pounds of fuel during the flight.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values