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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 433 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the attitude instead of letting the nose drop.
What happened: Sink came back after the flare had arrested it, and that pattern usually carries the touchdown long - here it landed at 965 m against the 457 m aim point.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a steady, shallow rate through the flare with no renewed sink before touchdown
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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3 landings
The flight is kept as it was recorded: it ends when the engine is shut down, so a landing with the rotors turning is a stop along the way, not a new flight.
| # | Where | Into flight | Touchdown | Ground speed | Sideways | On the ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EDNX · Schleissheim Airfield | 0:13 | 307 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 0:22 |
| 2 | EDNX · Schleissheim Airfield | 3:43 | 114 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | 1:00 |
| 3 | EDNX · Schleissheim Airfield | 7:13 | 0 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | End of flight |
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 150 kt, on the 149 kt target, and lifted off at 169 kt 5.1 s later, the nose coming up at 1.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 173 kt, 14 kt under its 187 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 903 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 738 m of runway left; gear up at 433 ft, 33 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,750 fpm on average to 903 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 2,310 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 1.9 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
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 4 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 210 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 4 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −0 kt and +3 kt on the approach speed of 132 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 tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 965 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 149° at 2 kt · 2 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 137 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 35 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 1,715 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 44 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 19 ft. Touched down 965 m in, 660 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 1,715 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 80 fpm at the flare to 50 fpm at 19 ft, then back up to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.6° 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 1,715 m of the 2,749 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.3 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.
Touched down 965 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-200ER taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at KSAN San Diego International Airport in 7 minutes, covering 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 27, the aircraft accelerated over a distance of 1,219 m (53 % of the runway) and lifted off at 170 kt; local weather was 25 °C with a wind of 4 kt from 309°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind.
Climb commenced 1 mile west of KSAN, where the airplane rose from 993 ft asl to 34,778 ft asl, an increase of 33,785 ft in 27 minutes while covering 198 nm.
Level cruise began 14 miles south of 41CL Conner Goffs and continued for 212 minutes, during which 1,890 nm were flown.
A second climb started 6 miles north of CYTI Selby-Howard's Airstrip, raising the aircraft from 35,284 ft asl to 36,985 ft asl, a gain of 1,701 ft in 3 minutes over 30 nm.
The next cruise segment originated 2 miles north of CRL2 Westport / Rideau Lakes Airport and lasted 250 minutes, covering 2,352 nm.
A third climb was initiated at latitude 54.0219788, longitude -16.5272321, taking the airplane from 36,997 ft asl to 38,987 ft asl, an increase of 1,990 ft in 3 minutes across 30 nm.
Subsequent level cruise began at latitude 54.0115569, longitude -15.6395904 and persisted for 176 minutes, during which 1,498 nm were traversed.
Descent started 7 miles east of Zaton Doli, dropping from 39,006 ft asl to 10,007 ft asl, a loss of 28,998 ft in 17 minutes while covering 113 nm.
A brief cruise segment followed 5 miles north-west of Vore, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 6 nm.
The next descent began overhead Shijak, descending from 9,212 ft asl to 1,622 ft asl, a reduction of 7,590 ft in 9 minutes over 26 nm.
Final approach to runway 35 at LATI Tirana International Airport Mother Teresa reduced altitude from 1,556 ft agl to 77 ft agl in 102 seconds, with the aircraft scoring on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 35 was executed with a threshold speed of 135 kt; the touchdown point was 565 m beyond the touchdown zone, the touchdown speed remained 135 kt, and the vertical speed was minus 165 fpm. Local conditions were 18 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 150°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 2 kt tail-wind. The total landing distance was 1,650 m (60 % of the runway).
Runway rollout alignment was perfect as the aircraft decelerated to a stop.
The airplane taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 6,149 nm, required 708 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 83,669 kg of fuel.
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