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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 23 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.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 35 stages, 33 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,446 m runway.
Rolled from 141 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 23 m at the widest, and lifted off 23 m right. Airborne 73 % 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 904 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 510 m of runway left; gear up at 64 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,810 fpm on average to 904 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 0.5 nm, about 220 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 40 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 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 from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then slow to 0.5 nm (up to −7 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
The flare wandered off the target profile
The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.8° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 398 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 2,044 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 69 ft, 19 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 28 ft. Touched down 398 m in, 93 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 2,044 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 830 fpm at the flare to 590 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.7° on the way down. Into the flare at 138 kt, 3 kt under the 141 kt approach speed, and 137 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 2,044 m of the 4,189 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.3 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.5 m right by the end of the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 070° at 6 kt · 6 kt head · 1 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.
The 398 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 594 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
A Boeing 747-8 departed Perth International Airport (YPPH) on runway 21, taking off with a distance of 2,524 meters, which was 73% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 194 knots, with a local temperature of 24°C and a wind of 5 knots at 320°. The crosswind component was 4 knots, and the tailwind component was 3 knots.
The enroute climb phase began overhead Kewdale, where the aircraft ascended from 1,053 feet above sea level to 31,990 feet, an increase of 30,937 feet in 18 minutes, covering 175 nautical miles. The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which lasted 1,232 minutes and covered 1,318 nautical miles. The aircraft continued to climb and descend at various points, with the final climb phase beginning 36 miles northwest of Zonguldak, Turkey, where the aircraft ascended from 37,994 feet to 38,993 feet in 2 minutes, covering 53 nautical miles.
The aircraft entered the final approach phase to runway 09R at Charles de Gaulle International Airport (LFPG), descending from 38,995 feet to 3,941 feet in 12 minutes, covering 46 nautical miles. The aircraft landed on the runway with a touchdown distance of 404 meters, which was good, but the touchdown speed was a little fast at 137 knots. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 5.2 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 1,967 meters, which was 47% of the runway length. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, taking 9 minutes to cover 2 nautical miles. The total flight distance was 7,824 nautical miles, taking 523 minutes, and the aircraft used 129,075 kilograms of fuel.
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