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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
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.
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 161 kt, on the 159 kt target, and lifted off at 177 kt 5.9 s later, the nose coming up at 1.4° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 184 kt target, at 181 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 782 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 316 m of runway left; gear up at 669 ft, inside the 806 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,410 fpm on average to 782 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 2,996 m runway.
Rolled from 269 m in, drifted 18 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 80 % of the way down the runway, past 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.
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 1,000 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline more than 1° off.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.5 to 0.6 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.6 nm and 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, 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 155 m left of the centreline, then inside it from 1.5 to 0.6 nm, then 19 m left of it from 0.6 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −3 kt and +6 kt on the approach speed of 141 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 strayed well off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.4° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 461 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 119° at 4 kt · 3 kt tail · 2 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 150 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 52 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 1,919 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 7 ft. Touched down 461 m in, 157 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 1,919 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 120 fpm at the flare to 80 fpm at 6 ft, then back up to 380 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 3.4° 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 1,919 m of the 3,386 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.8 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.3 m left by the end of 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 461 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 385 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A330-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 09 at VTSP Phuket International Airport in 7 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 09 with a distance of 2,369 m, which was 79 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 161 kt. Local weather was 34 °C, wind 3 kt from 089°, with 0 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 17 seconds, averaging 2,171 fpm and reaching 180 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 955 ft asl to 33,380 ft asl in 27 minutes, covering 181 nm and beginning about 1 mile east of VTSP.
Cruise at 33,000 ft asl lasted 231 minutes, covering 1,804 nm, starting from latitude 9.9386731 longitude 96.6078648.
A subsequent climb from 33,001 ft asl to 35,999 ft asl took 5 minutes, covering 35 nm and beginning 15 miles east of Chhor.
Level flight at 36,000 ft asl continued for 146 minutes, covering 1,067 nm, starting 19 miles east of OPMK Mirpur Khas Air Base.
Descent from 35,999 ft asl to 1,319 ft asl was completed in 19 minutes, covering 108 nm, beginning 19 miles west of OIBQ Khark Airport.
Final approach to runway 33L at OKKK Kuwait International began with a descent from 1,153 ft agl to 125 ft agl in 91 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, speed, and wings level; the centreline check was not met.
Landing was made on runway 33L, which is 3,386 m long. The threshold speed was 145 kt and was considered good. The flare was described as fair, starting late. Touchdown occurred 48 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 140 kt, noted as a little fast, with a firm rate of minus 385 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 5.3 m from the centreline. Local weather was 39 °C, wind 4 kt from 120°, with 2 kt crosswind and a 3 kt tailwind. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,842 m, representing 54 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
The aircraft taxied to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 3,205 nm in 437 minutes and used 43,473 kg of fuel.
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