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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Use smoother, smaller aileron inputs to keep the wings level and hold bank angle near wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the climb, bank angle rose to 10°, more roll than the climb out called for.
Watch for: Attitude indicator: wings level during the climb
Arrival
Carry more power on approach to hold 139 kt at the threshold instead of letting speed decay into the flare.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 25 ft while already below the speed target, and the aircraft settled as the remaining energy ran out, usually carrying a firm touchdown with it at 589 fpm.
Watch for: Watch airspeed on short final against 139 kt, keeping it there through the flare.
A typical trainer rotates in the mid-50s of knots - a 172 at around 55 KIAS, climbing out at a Vy in the low 70s, though check your own POH rather than memorising Cessna's numbers - and the transferable rule is that Vr sits just above the stall speed in takeoff configuration. Rotate early because "it felt ready" and the aircraft lifts off inside ground effect, where induced drag is reduced, then climbs out of it into more drag. On a marginal-performance day the result is an aircraft that lifts off and then refuses to climb, sagging back towards the runway.
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Taxi out
The roll
Rotated early, and slowly
The nose came up at 130 kt, 19 kt before the 149 kt rotate speed, and rose at 1.5° a second, slower than the 2.6 to 3.5 other Boeing 737 MAX 8 pilots fly.
The nose started up before the rotate speed and then came up slowly, as if easing it off early. Wait for the rotate speed, then make one steady pull at the normal rate for this aircraft.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,052 m runway.
Rolled from 119 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 7.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.2 m right, in 11 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 44 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 851 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,246 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,100 fpm on average to 851 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 2.6 to 3.5° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Boeing 737 MAX 8 pilots over the last 180 days (80 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 11°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
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 170 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 26× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 14 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −7 kt and +15 kt on the approach speed of 139 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
The flare wandered off the target profile
The flare took all the sink out 25 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 530 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 537 m past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 41 ft. Touched down 537 m in, 232 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 460 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at 25 ft, then back up to 590 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed. Into the flare at 132 kt, 7 kt under the 139 kt approach speed, and 119 kt at touchdown.
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 2,911 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.6 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.1 m right by the end of the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 080° at 10 kt · 9 kt head · 0 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 537 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.77 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 113 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.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxied from the parking area to runway 28 at BIKF Keflavik International Airport in 7 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 28 with a distance of 1,348 m, which was 44 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 130 kt. Local weather was 6 °C, wind 15 kt from 002°, with a 15 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 44 seconds, averaging 1,018 fpm and reaching 229 kt at the top of the climb.
Climb continued from 1,060 ft asl to 34,642 ft asl in 25 minutes, covering 169 nm, beginning 2 miles west of BIKF.
Level flight at 35,000 ft asl lasted 92 minutes, covering 757 nm, beginning 67 miles south-east of BIVI Vík Airport.
Descent from 35,003 ft asl to 15,349 ft asl took 12 minutes over 76 nm, starting overhead Standon.
A further level segment at 15,000 ft asl lasted 7 minutes, covering 36 nm, starting overhead Eynsham.
Descent from 15,032 ft asl to 1,503 ft asl lasted 18 minutes, covering 72 nm, beginning 1 mile south of Fleet, with brief level-offs at 3,000 ft asl and 1,500 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 08R at EGKK London Gatwick Airport descended from 1,313 ft agl to 226 ft agl in 108 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration on final was flap 7 at 837 ft agl with a speed of 143 kt.
Landing on runway 08R (length 2,911 m) had a threshold height of 57 ft agl, slightly above target, and a threshold speed of 132 kt, slightly below target. The flare was described as fair; the aircraft ran out of speed in the flare. Touchdown occurred 114 m beyond the touchdown zone at 119 kt, with a very hard rate of minus 590 fpm. The touchdown point was 4.3 m off the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,160 m, 40 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather was 8 °C, wind 9 kt from 060°, with a 3 kt crosswind and an 8 kt headwind.
Taxi from the runway to parking took 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 1,120 nm in 169 minutes and used 6,432 kg of fuel.
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