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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 14 stages, 13 in the score
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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,744 m runway.
Rolled from 350 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.4 m right. Airborne 56 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 938 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 838 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,600 fpm on average to 938 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off and speed above the approach speed.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.8 nm, about 290 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate.
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.
Low from 3.3 nm, where the final began, to 1.0 nm (up to 1,020 ft under), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3.3 nm, where the final began, to 3.1 nm, then drifted 320 m right between 3.1 and 1.8 nm, then drifted 160 m left between 1.8 and 1.0 nm, then inside the band from 1.0 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.
Over the threshold
Poor landing flare
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 87 m in, 218 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 730 fpm at 13 ft to 460 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.6° on the way down. Into 13 ft at 153 kt and 146 kt at touchdown.
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 2,744 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9.4 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 2.6 m right by the end of the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, 3.4° of bank.
Wind 180° at 19 kt · 19 kt head · 0 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 87 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 124 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 40 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KPAE Seattle Paine Field International Airport took less than a minute, covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The Boeing 747-8 then began its departure roll on runway 16R, utilizing 57% of the 1,555-meter runway to achieve liftoff at a speed of 161 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff featured a temperature of 14°C and a headwind of 26 knots from a direction of 179°.
As the aircraft climbed enroute, it began to ascend from an altitude of 1,603 feet above sea level to 7,378 feet, an increase of 5,775 feet over a distance of 9 nautical miles, within a timeframe of 2 minutes. The climb phase concluded 1 mile north of Eastmont, Washington, after which the aircraft initiated its enroute descent, reducing its altitude from 7,228 feet to 833 feet above sea level, a decrease of 6,395 feet over a distance of 8 nautical miles, within a timeframe of 3 minutes. The final approach to runway 16R at KPAE Seattle Paine Field International Airport was conducted from the north, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 161.0° at an altitude of 268 feet above ground level, 2 nautical miles from the runway threshold.
The Boeing 747-8 landed on runway 16R, utilizing 43% of the 2,744-meter runway, with a touchdown distance of 88 meters and a touchdown speed of 146 knots. The touchdown rate was relatively high at -590 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 10.3 meters. Following touchdown, the aircraft's runway rollout alignment was also slightly misaligned by 9.4 meters from the centerline. The total landing distance was 1,178 meters, and the total flight distance was 21 nautical miles, consuming 1,780 kilograms of fuel over a duration of 7 minutes.
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