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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 6.7 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 142 kt with 7.0° 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 905 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,984 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,030 fpm on average to 905 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 4,263 m runway.
Rolled from 344 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 6.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.6 m right. Airborne 25 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up and speed more than 33 kt above the approach speed of 131 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 131 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.0 nm, about 430 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate.
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 2.4 nm, then high to 1.2 nm (up to 300 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 27 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.
Fast from 4 nm to 1.3 nm (up to +48 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Very poor landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 127 kt. Touched down with the nose 2° into wind, wings level.
Wind 029° at 11 kt · 10 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.
Side view — the last 1,764 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 230 m in, 75 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 1,764 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 550 fpm and 830 fpm from 41 ft to the runway. The nose came up 2.6° 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 1,764 m of the 4,001 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 11 m left of the centreline and drifted to 15 m left on the rollout, back to 1.9 m left 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 230 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.57 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 11 minutes and covered a distance of 6 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 787-8, then departed from runway 34L at OTHH Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar. The takeoff distance was 727 meters, which accounted for 17% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 142 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 20 knots at 340 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 20 knots. The aircraft climbed from 1,097 feet above sea level to 7,450 feet above sea level, an increase of 6,354 feet, in just 2 minutes and covering a distance of 8 nautical miles.
The enroute climb continued as the aircraft ascended from 7,460 feet above sea level to 42,196 feet above sea level, an increase of 34,736 feet, in 18 minutes and covering a distance of 131 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, lasting 99 minutes and covering a distance of 807 nautical miles, 6 miles north of Doha.
The enroute descent phase began as the aircraft descended from 42,039 feet above sea level to 14,570 feet above sea level, a decrease of 27,469 feet, in 11 minutes and covering a distance of 79 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, lasting 5 minutes and covering a distance of 34 nautical miles, 9 miles north west of HE45 Ras Sedr Airport.
The final descent phase began as the aircraft descended from 14,415 feet above sea level to 2,531 feet above sea level, a decrease of 11,885 feet, in 9 minutes and covering a distance of 37 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, lasting 6 minutes and covering a distance of 14 nautical miles, overhead Saqqarah.
The final approach to runway 05C at HECA Cairo International Airport was made from the south west, heading 49.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,590 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown distance of 230 meters and a touchdown speed of 127 knots. However, the touchdown rate was heavy at -667 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 11.0 meters from the centreline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 33 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 9 knots at 30 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 3 knots and a headwind of 9 knots. The total landing distance was 1,681 meters, which accounted for 42% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 15.3 meters from the centreline.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 3 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,147 nautical miles, taking a total of 170 minutes, and the aircraft used 10,876 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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