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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 484 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Add power at the gate to bring the speed up to 138 kt and hold it through the approach.
What happened: This flight was slow at the stabilisation gate, 123 kt against 138 kt, and still slow crossing the threshold at 130 kt against 138 kt. Carrying low speed into the flare like this usually leaves little energy to cushion the touchdown, and this one arrived firm at 238 fpm.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 138 kt at the gate
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 136 kt, 12 kt below the 148 kt target, and lifted off at 158 kt 6.8 s later, the nose coming up at 0.8° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 184 kt target, at 185 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 839 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,310 m of runway left; gear up at 484 ft, 84 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,010 fpm on average to 839 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 3,650 m runway.
Rolled from 99 m in, never more than 1.3 m off the centreline. Airborne 53 % 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.
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: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 138 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.7 to 2.0 nm, then not again: slow from 2.0 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 6 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 2.0 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −15 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
Great landing flare. It lost 4.8 points, partly for taking only 263 fpm of the sink out.
5 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 129 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 285° at 6 kt · 1 kt head · 5 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 127 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 57 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 17 ft, 6 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 16 ft, 34 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 187 m in, 117 m short of 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 520 fpm at the flare to 240 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 2,502 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.8 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 187 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The B752 departed KDEN Denver International Airport on runway 08. Take-off used 1,961 m, 54 % of the runway, and rotation was achieved at 136 kt. The local weather was 8 °C with wind 0 kt from 055° (crosswind 0 kt, headwind 0 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 22 seconds, averaging 1,952 fpm and reaching 184 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 6,262 ft asl to 36,945 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 126 nm, beginning the climb about 3 nm east of KDEN. Cruise was held at 37,000 ft asl for 141 minutes, covering 1,189 nm, starting roughly 8 nm north-east of 2NE9 Harford Ranch Haigler.
Descent began from 36,999 ft asl and proceeded to 1,292 ft asl in 31 minutes, covering 164 nm, with brief level-offs at 12,800 ft asl, 6,000 ft asl and 4,000 ft asl. The final approach to KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport runway 22L started from 1,313 ft agl and descended to 49 ft agl in 102 seconds.
Stabilisation checks were performed at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. The checks met gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate. Configuration changes were: landing gear down at 1,214 ft agl at 169 kt, and final flap position 6 at 777 ft agl at 142 kt.
Landing on runway 22L (runway length 2,502 m) had a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 130 kt. The flare was described as perfect, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 198 m down the runway at 129 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 196 fpm and perfect alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 989 m, 40 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather at KEWR was 20 °C with wind 3 kt from 237° (crosswind 1 kt, headwind 2 kt).
After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in 14 minutes, covering 2 nm. The overall flight covered 1,491 nm in 220 minutes and used 9,143 kg of fuel.
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