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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
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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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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 3,259 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 20 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Boeing 747-8 began with a taxi to runway 24L at KLAX Los Angeles Intl. The distance from parking to the runway was 2 nm, and the taxi duration was 6 minutes. The departure roll took place on runway 24L at KLAX, with a takeoff distance of 4,922 ft (52% of the runway). The liftoff speed was 161 kn, with the local weather indicating a temperature of 67 °F and a wind speed of 6 kn at 260 °, resulting in a headwind of 5 kn.
The enroute climb started 2 miles south of Marina del Rey (California, United States), climbing from 1,048 ft asl to 33,937 ft asl, an increase of 32,890 ft in 17 minutes over a distance of 115 nm, finishing 3 miles east of 0CA1 Northside Airpark Santa Maria (California, United States). The flight then proceeded to the enroute level cruise, starting 2 miles northeast of 0CA1 Northside Airpark Santa Maria, covering a distance of 2,387 nm in 306 minutes and finishing 49 miles southwest of PAPB St George St George (Alaska, United States).
Another enroute climb began 50 miles southwest of PAPB St George, climbing from 33,988 ft asl to 37,994 ft asl, an increase of 4,006 ft in 4 minutes over a distance of 31 nm, finishing 75 miles southwest of PAPB St George. This was followed by an enroute level cruise that covered 1,927 nm in 253 minutes, starting 77 miles southwest of PAPB St George and finishing at Latitude: 38.6078588, Longitude: 147.3437697.
The descent phase of the flight started at Latitude: 36.3467076, Longitude: 142.9260834, descending from 39,811 ft asl to 3,854 ft asl, a decrease of 35,957 ft in 18 minutes over a distance of 115 nm, finishing 11 miles southeast of Asahi (Chiba-ken, Japan). The flight then leveled off briefly before commencing another descent, starting 3 miles east of Naruto (Chiba-ken, Japan), descending from 3,612 ft asl to 1,926 ft asl, a decrease of 1,686 ft in 2 minutes over a distance of 6 nm, finishing 4 miles north of Naruto.
The final phase of the flight involved landing on runway 34L at RJAA Narita Intl, with a touchdown speed of 138 kn and a touchdown VSI of -222 ft/min. The landing rollout covered a distance of 2,911 ft, with a total landing distance of 3,105 ft (29% of the runway). The flight then taxied to parking from runway 34L at RJAA Narita Intl, with a distance to parking of less than 1 nm and a taxi duration of 2 minutes.
Overall, the total flight distance was 4,850 nm, taking 648 minutes and using 212,564 lbs of fuel. The flight covered a variety of altitudes, speeds, and distances, showcasing the capabilities of the Boeing 747-8 aircraft on this journey from Los Angeles to Tokyo.
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