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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 144 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 118 kt, 26 kt before the 144 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 144 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Close the throttles further on final so you cross the threshold at 134 kt, removing the excess energy before the flare.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 155 kt, 21 kt above the 134 kt target, and the flare was not begun until 1 ft, well inside the normal flare band. Carrying excess speed that late into the approach usually leaves the flare started late and the touchdown arriving firm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 134 kt at the threshold
High on final, the pilot dives to the aim point, converting altitude directly into airspeed, and arrives on-glideslope but 15 knots fast. The vertical profile looks fine; the speed trace does not. It is one of the reasons the stabilised-approach concept - configured, on speed, on path by a gate, commonly 1,000 ft in IMC and 500 ft in VMC - checks speed and path together, and why the tolerances airlines use are asymmetric, typically allowing more on the fast side than the slow, because slow kills faster than fast.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 118 kt, 26 kt below the 144 kt target, and lifted off at 134 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 1.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 209 kt, 29 kt over its 180 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 863 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,535 m of runway left; gear up at 147 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,190 fpm on average to 863 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 3,770 m runway.
Rolled from 338 m in, never more than 0.3 m off the centreline. Airborne 22 % 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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 134 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 1.7 nm, then not again: fast from 1.7 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 30 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 4 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 from 4 nm to 1.7 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +22 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 strayed well off the target profile. Crossing the threshold 22 kt above target, the flare began at 1 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 439 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 157 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 26 s, an average deceleration of 0.25 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.
Crossed the threshold at 66 ft, 16 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 1 ft. Touched down 439 m in, 134 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 stayed between 620 fpm and 850 fpm from the flare to the runway. The pitch barely changed.
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 3,047 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 13 m right of the centreline and drifted to 16 m right on the rollout, back to 4.1 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 439 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.23 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 787-10 departed from runway 09L at KATL Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The take-off roll was 859 m, representing 23 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 118 kt. Local weather was 18 °C with a 21 kt wind from 090°, giving a 21 kt headwind and 0 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 22 seconds, averaging 1,910 fpm and reaching 218 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,600 ft asl to 40,985 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 115 nm, with a brief level-off at 10,000 ft asl. Cruise was maintained at 40,000 ft asl for 36 minutes, covering 291 nm, beginning 8 mi east of 85TN Tellico Plains Muni Madisonville.
Descent began from 39,009 ft asl to 1,586 ft asl in 37 minutes, covering 221 nm, starting 3 mi west of East Fultonham, with brief level-offs at 20,000 ft asl, 12,000 ft asl, 9,000 ft asl and 3,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 21L at KDTW Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport started from 1,002 ft agl and descended to -276 ft agl in 90 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate. Configuration on final was flap position 9 at 1,697 ft agl with a speed of 207 kt. Autopilot was disconnected at 251 ft agl when the speed was 158 kt.
Landing on runway 21L (runway length 3,047 m) had a threshold height of 66 ft agl, which was above target, and a threshold speed of 156 kt, also above target. The flare was very poor, starting late. Touchdown occurred 117 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 156 kt, with a very heavy rate of -807 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 13.0 m from the centreline. One bounce occurred on touchdown. Total landing distance was 1,285 m, representing 42 % of the runway. Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 12.6 m from the centreline.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area took 8 minutes and covered 1 nm. The total flight distance was 634 nm, the total time 103 minutes, and fuel used was 0 kg.
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