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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Start to finish · 17 stages, 15 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 12.6° and 18.6°, and the speed between 166 kt and 178 kt.
Once clear of the runway the nose moved through a wide range, and the speed moved with it. Set the climb attitude, hold it and trim, and give the speed a few seconds to settle before correcting it with a degree or two of pitch. Chasing the airspeed with large pitch changes makes it wander more.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 10,536 ft runway.
Rolled from 173 ft in, never more than 1 ft off the centreline. Airborne 41 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 900 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 5,053 ft of runway left; gear up at 66 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,580 fpm on average to 900 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 2.1 to 4.2° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Boeing 737-800 pilots over the last 180 days (157 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 0.2 nm, then not again: low from 0.2 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.2 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 40 ft under).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 20 ft 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +1 kt and +6 kt on the approach speed of 135 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
Perfect landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,571 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 31 ft, 527 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 17 ft, 33 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,399 ft in, 399 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,571 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 570 fpm at the flare to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° on the way down. Into the flare at 137 kt, on the 135 kt approach speed, and 127 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 5,571 ft of the 9,974 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 10 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 12 ft left at the widest. Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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.
The 1,399 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 126 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 38 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 08R at KMIA, a movement that lasted 11 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 08R with a take-off roll of 4,367 ft, representing 41 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 144 kt. The local weather at departure was temperature 63 °F, wind 1 kt from 270°, crosswind 0 kt and tailwind 1 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 18 seconds, averaging 2,254 fpm and reaching 178 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 987 ft asl to 35,964 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 112 nm, beginning 1 mile south-east of Miami Springs.
Level cruise was held at 36,000 ft asl for 92 minutes, covering 621 nm, beginning 4 miles south-west of Marco Island.
Descent began at 35,998 ft asl and proceeded to 1,377 ft asl in 32 minutes, covering 162 nm, starting 34 miles south-east of LA12 Louisiana State Police Troop B Helipad Kenner. A brief level-off occurred at 3,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 27 at KIAH started from 1,328 ft agl and descended to 40 ft agl in 100 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration on final was flap position 8 at 2,386 ft agl with a speed of 150 kt.
Landing on runway 27 was on a runway 9,974 ft long with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 136 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 1,398 ft down the runway at 127 kt, a good speed, with a touchdown rate of minus 224 fpm, rated fair. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 10 ft from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 5,292 ft, 53 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good. Local weather at landing was temperature 59 °F, wind 0 kt from 360°, crosswind 0 kt, headwind 0 kt.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 8 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 905 nm in 164 minutes and used 13,415 lb of fuel.
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