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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 13° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 138 kt, 4 kt below the 142 kt target, and lifted off at 161 kt 4.9 s later, the nose coming up at 1.5° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 187 kt target, at 186 kt on average.
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 figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 877 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,895 m of runway left; gear up at 129 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,570 fpm on average to 877 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.
Plan view the roll down the 3,623 m runway.
Rolled from 173 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.9 m left. Airborne 38 % 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.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 1.7 nm, then not again: high from 1.0 nm, sinking too fast from 0.4 nm, fast from 0.4 nm and left of the centreline 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 1.0 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 400 ft over).
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.7 nm, then drifted 117 m right between 1.7 and 0.2 nm, then 40 m left of it from 0.2 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +22 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
Touchdown
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare arrested the sink and then let it come back - 678 fpm of it - so the aircraft dropped the last few feet. Touchdown was 654 m past the threshold. Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 132 kt. Touched down with 1° of it still on, 14° of bank.
Wind 120° at 5 kt · 4 kt head · 3 kt across
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. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 131 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 34 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 90 ft, 40 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 54 ft; ballooned 4 ft from 10 ft. Touched down 654 m in, 349 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 280 fpm before coming down at 330 fpm to touch. The nose came up 4.0° on the way down.
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 2,190 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 15 m right of the centreline and drifted to 18 m right on the rollout, back to 5 m right by the end.
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.
Touched down 654 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 333 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-200ER taxied from its parking position to runway 34R at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 6 minutes, covering a ground distance of 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 34R, the aircraft accelerated through a takeoff distance of 1,387 m, representing 38 % of the runway, and lifted off at 161 kt; ambient conditions were 18 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 20°, a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 5 kt head-wind.
The initial climb began overhead SeaTac, climbing from 1,326 ft asl to 34,957 ft asl, an altitude gain of 33,630 ft achieved in 21 minutes while traversing 142 nm.
Level cruise commenced 11 mi north-east of Aerostone Ranch Airport (03WN) and continued for 108 minutes, during which 906 nm were covered.
A subsequent climb started 8 mi south-east of Saint Francis Airport (KTAW), rising from 35,255 ft asl to 37,037 ft asl, a gain of 1,782 ft in 2 minutes over 14 nm.
The following cruise segment originated 5 mi north-west of Goodland, Kansas, lasting 171 minutes and encompassing 1,331 nm.
A further climb was initiated 30 mi east of Jupiter Island, Florida, increasing altitude from 37,222 ft asl to 38,531 ft asl, a rise of 1,309 ft in 2 minutes across 12 nm.
Cruise then continued 31 mi north-east of West Palm Beach Carrier (ZC04), lasting 120 minutes and covering 947 nm.
Descent began 2 mi north-east of Culebra, Puerto Rico, descending from 38,649 ft asl to 1,303 ft asl, a loss of 37,347 ft in 25 minutes while traveling 123 nm.
A go-around was executed on runway 10 at Princess Juliana International Airport (TNCM) at an altitude of 449 ft agl.
The final approach to runway 10 at TNCM descended from 1,330 ft agl to 218 ft agl in 104 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 10 at TNCM, whose length is 2,190 m, occurred with a threshold speed of 152 kt and a touchdown speed of 132 kt; the touchdown point was 229 m beyond the touchdown zone, the rate was -329 fpm, and the touchdown position was 18.2 m off the centreline. Local weather was 29 °C with a wind of 5 kt from 120°, a 3 kt cross-wind and a 4 kt head-wind. Total landing distance measured 1,354 m, representing 62 % of the runway.
Rollout after touchdown showed a runway alignment deviation of 14.5 m from the centreline.
In total, the flight covered 3,483 nm, required 455 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 51,015 kg of fuel.
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