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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Monitor your taxi speed
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
Side view — the last 1,709 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,709 m of the 3,195 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 257 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Airbus A380 from Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar, Senegal to Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport in French Guiana was smooth and efficient. The taxiing from the parking to the runway and back took a total of 8 minutes, covering a short distance of 3 nm.
The departure from Blaise Diagne International Airport on runway 19 was swift, with a takeoff distance of 1,500 m, representing 43% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 162 kn, with local weather conditions showing a temperature of 39 °C and a relatively light wind of 9 kn, coming from 110°, resulting in a crosswind of 9 kn and a headwind of 3 kn.
The climb to cruising altitude started just 1 mile south of the airport, ascending from 1,315 ft to 39,183 ft in just 11 minutes, covering a distance of 62 nm. Once at cruising altitude, the flight covered 2,001 nm over 280 minutes of level cruise.
The descent began 73 miles northeast of French Guyana Moving Carrier, descending from 39,451 ft to 2,039 ft in 23 minutes over a distance of 114 nm. The landing on runway 08 at Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 139 kn and a VSI of -287 ft/m. The landing distance was 1,627 m, representing 51% of the runway length.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 2,190 nm over a duration of 342 minutes, using 53,106 kg of fuel. The aircraft performed well throughout the journey, demonstrating the capabilities of the Airbus A380 in long-haul flights.
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