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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Hold the nose down until the speed reaches 183 kt, then rotate.
What happened: You started the rotation at 164 kt, 19 kt before the 183 kt rotation speed.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 183 kt at rotation
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Hold the approach aim point and let the aircraft settle onto 457 m instead of holding it off in the flare.
What happened: Touchdown point came 79 m past the target, landing at 536 m against the 457 m aim point, with threshold speed and the flare both within limits.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 164 kt, 19 kt below the 183 kt target, and lifted off at 173 kt 3.6 s later, the nose coming up at 3.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 184 kt, 14 kt under its 198 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 940 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,022 m of runway left; gear up at 259 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,770 fpm on average to 940 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 3,742 m runway.
Rolled from 150 m in, never more than 1.3 m off the centreline. Airborne 62 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.7 nm, about 930 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before 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 170 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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 28 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 3.0 nm, then slow to 2.7 nm (up to −6 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
Perfect landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 009° at 4 kt · 4 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 147 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 51 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 1,800 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 50 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 15 ft. Touched down 536 m in, 231 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 1,800 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 500 fpm at the flare to 100 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.0° 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 1,800 m of the 2,870 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 6.2 m left at the widest.
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.
Touched down 536 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777F taxied from the parking area to runway 17L at SCEL, a movement that lasted 13 minutes and covered 6 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 17L the aircraft used 2,349 m of runway, representing 63 % of the available length, and lifted off at 173 kt; ambient temperature was 24 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 072°, providing a 1 kt cross-wind and no head-wind component.
The initial climb began 1 mile south of SCEL, climbing from 2,492 ft asl to 31,990 ft asl, an altitude gain of 29,498 ft achieved in 23 minutes while covering 147 nm.
Level cruise commenced 43 nm west of SCHO Punta Chungo Airport and continued for 121 minutes, during which 873 nm were flown.
A subsequent climb started at latitude -18.8128905, longitude -79.9574548, raising the aircraft from 32,263 ft asl to 33,932 ft asl, a gain of 1,669 ft in 3 minutes over 25 nm.
Cruise from latitude -18.4161811, longitude -80.1682228 lasted 61 minutes and covered 489 nm.
The next climb segment originated at latitude -11.0898472, longitude -83.8879256, increasing altitude from 34,000 ft asl to 35,938 ft asl, a rise of 1,938 ft in 5 minutes while traversing 42 nm.
Cruise from latitude -10.4368722, longitude -84.2073683 persisted for 197 minutes and spanned 1,603 nm.
A further climb began at latitude 13.139577, longitude -96.7105213, climbing from 36,367 ft asl to 37,532 ft asl, an increase of 1,165 ft in 2 minutes across 12 nm.
The final cruise segment started at latitude 13.314467, longitude -96.8545656, lasting 301 minutes and covering 2,402 nm.
Descent commenced 1 mile west of Meadow Glade, Washington, with the aircraft descending from 38,001 ft asl to 1,832 ft asl, a loss of 36,170 ft in 22 minutes while covering 120 nm.
The final approach to runway 16C at KSEA was executed from the north, on a heading of 180.0° at 4 nm and 1,376 ft agl.
Landing on runway 16C, which is 2,870 m long, was achieved with a threshold speed of 144 kt; touchdown occurred 125 m beyond the touchdown zone at 141 kt and a vertical speed of minus 180 fpm, with the wheel track 6.0 m off the centreline. Ambient conditions were 20 °C, wind 4 kt from 009°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 4 kt tail-wind. The total landing roll measured 1,725 m, equivalent to 60 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total the flight covered 5,728 nm, required 748 minutes of flight time, and consumed 117,303 kg of fuel.
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