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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Rotate sooner, bringing the nose up at 167 kt rather than letting speed build further.
What happened: You lifted off at 188 kt against a rotation target of 167 kt, rotating late in the ground roll.
Watch for: Watch airspeed and rotate at the target of 167 kt.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 71 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 71 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, well above the normal profile. The touchdown point was also long at 844 m against a 457 m target, a pattern often seen after high threshold crossings.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Even a modest height error carries straight through to the touchdown. Geometry alone says that crossing the threshold 10 feet high on a 3° path moves your touchdown roughly 190 feet further down the runway before the flare adds anything.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 28 stages, 26 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,986 m runway.
Rolled from 98 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.3 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.4 m left. Airborne 50 % 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 1,000 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,573 m of runway left; gear up at 82 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,950 fpm on average to 1,000 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.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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.
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 0.4 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.4 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 100 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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then 13 m left of it from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +5 kt and +18 kt on the approach speed of 148 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 held the target profile well
Crossing the threshold 5 kt above target, the aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 844 m past the threshold. The flare cannot burn off excess energy - fix the approach speed and the float goes with it.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,898 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 71 ft, 21 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 57 ft. Touched down 844 m in, 540 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 1,898 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 1,000 fpm at the flare to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.1° on the way down. Into the flare at 152 kt, 4 kt over the 148 kt approach speed, and 140 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 1,898 m of the 4,112 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.8 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.1 m right at the widest. 3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 140 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 069° at 13 kt · 13 kt head · 3 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way. 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 844 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 144 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 31 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
Departing from Frankfurt Airport, a Boeing 747-8 began its journey, taxiing from the parking area to the runway 07C, a distance of 3 nautical miles covered in 12 minutes. At 7°C and with a gentle headwind of 2 kt, the aircraft took off, rolling down the runway for 1,995 meters, utilizing 50% of the available length. Liftoff speed was achieved at 188 kt, marking the start of the enroute climb phase.
As the aircraft ascended from 1,386 feet above sea level to 35,759 feet, it covered a distance of 132 nautical miles in 19 minutes, demonstrating a steady climb rate. The enroute level cruise phase commenced approximately 1 mile north-east of Rehling, Germany, and lasted for 383 minutes, covering a significant 3,317 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent from 38,449 feet to 13,856 feet in 24 minutes, a decrease of 24,593 feet, before entering another brief level cruise phase near Nyahururu, Kenya. The flight continued with multiple climb and descent phases, eventually entering the final approach to runway 06 at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
The Boeing 747-8 touched down on the 4,121-meter runway, 438 meters beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 140 kt. The touchdown rate was fair at -253 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The aircraft taxied to the parking area, a distance of 1 nautical mile covered in 5 minutes. The total flight distance was 3,731 nautical miles, completed in 471 minutes, and the aircraft consumed 67,284 kilograms of fuel.
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