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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bleed speed back to 142 kt before crossing the threshold.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 160 kt, 18 kt above the 142 kt target.
Watch for: Airspeed, targeting 142 kt at the threshold.
See Arrival Landing
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 166 kt, 11 kt above the 155 kt target, and lifted off at 177 kt 2.3 s later, the nose coming up at 2.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 188 kt, 10 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 865 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 484 m of runway left; gear up at 47 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,350 fpm on average to 865 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 1,941 m runway.
Rolled from 33 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.8 m left, in 7 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 55 % 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 0.8 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.8 nm and fast from 0.5 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 40 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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then 25 m left of it from 0.8 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 37 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 0.5 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +16 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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.3° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 390 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 with the nose 5° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 239° at 15 kt · 14 kt head · 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 138 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 36 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 42 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 390 m in, 85 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 1,524 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 510 fpm at the flare to 320 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.2° 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 1,524 m of the 3,671 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.2 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 390 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 320 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777F departed Wellington International Airport (NZWN) on runway 34. Take-off was achieved after a 1,080 m roll, using 56 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 166 kt. Local weather was 17 °C with a wind of 34 kt from 349°, giving a headwind component of 33 kt and a cross-wind of 8 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 20 seconds, averaging 2,208 fpm and reaching 180 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,018 ft asl to 32,005 ft asl in 16 minutes, covering 95 nm, beginning the segment overhead SB14 Wellington. Level cruise was held at 32,900 ft asl for 3 minutes, covering 23 nm, starting 15 nm north-east of Waverley. Descent began from 32,875 ft asl to 1,317 ft asl in 26 minutes, covering 134 nm, starting 19 nm east of Urenui.
For the final approach to runway 23L at Auckland International Airport (NZAA), descent from 1,343 ft agl to 82 ft agl was completed in 99 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Configuration changes were: landing gear down at 2,619 ft agl at 196 kt; final flap position 6 at 2,281 ft agl at 160 kt.
Landing was made on runway 23L, whose length is 3,671 m. The threshold speed was 160 kt, noted as well above target. The flare began early and was described as great. Touchdown occurred 390 m down the runway at 155 kt, a little fast, with a firm rate of -320 fpm. Alignment on touchdown and during rollout was very good; no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 849 m, representing 23 % of the runway.
Local weather at Auckland was 15 °C with a wind of 16 kt from 240°, giving a headwind component of 16 kt and a cross-wind of 3 kt. After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking in less than one minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered 258 nm in 49 minutes and used 60,089 kg of fuel.
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