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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: You drifted off the centreline on the approach.
Watch for: Runway centreline: tracked all the way to the threshold.
See Arrival Approach
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 142 kt, on the 140 kt target, and lifted off at 150 kt 1.8 s later, the nose coming up at 5.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 185 kt, 6 kt over its 179 kt target.
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 837 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,316 m of runway left; gear up at 7 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,610 fpm on average to 837 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 147 m in, never more than 1.4 m off the centreline. Airborne 29 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven 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. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: right of the centreline all the way, fast until 3.0 nm and banked until 1.9 nm.
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 270 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 2,242 m right of 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.0 nm (up to +58 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
Touchdown
Excellent landing flare. It lost 1.3 points, for the nose going up and down 2 times.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 119 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.42 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.
Began the flare at 40 ft, 165 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 22 ft, 28 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 427 m in, 123 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.
The sink went from 720 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° 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 2,726 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 0.8 m of it down the rollout.
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 427 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 16L at KSEA, a movement that lasted 4 minutes and covered 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 16L. The aircraft used 1,055 m of runway (29 % of the available length) and rotated at 142 kt. Local weather was 9 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 160°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt head-wind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 17 seconds, averaging 2,448 fpm and reaching 192 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 1,327 ft asl to 39,601 ft asl in 43 minutes, covering 323 nm while the aircraft was overhead SeaTac.
Cruise level was maintained at 40,000 ft asl for 38 minutes, covering 314 nm, beginning 9 mi north of SIHL Rio Centro Heliport, Rio De Janeiro.
Descent began from 39,801 ft asl and proceeded to 682 ft asl in 28 minutes, covering 186 nm, starting 6 mi north of 84K Meyers Chuck Seaplane Base.
Final approach to runway 08 at PAJN began at 1,529 ft agl and descended to 37 ft agl in 96 seconds. At 500 ft above the runway the stabilisation checks were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed and wings level; the centreline check was not met. Configuration on final was landing gear down at 767 ft agl and 136 kt, and final flap position 8 at 1,060 ft agl and 156 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 08. Threshold speed was 128 kt and touchdown speed was 118 kt, both recorded as good. Touchdown distance was 427 m, touchdown rate was smooth at minus 132 fpm, and alignment was perfect. The flare was described as excellent; there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 870 m, representing 32 % of the runway length (2,726 m). Runway rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather at landing was 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, a 0 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 831 nm in 115 minutes and used 5,547 kg of fuel.
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