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MY FS FLIGHTS
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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 1,944 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.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 23 stages, 21 in the score
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2 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 | KHHR · Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport | 8:20 | 828 ft/min | 12.9 kt | 1.9 kt | 0:15 |
| 2 | KLGB · Long Beach Airport (Daugherty Field) | 31:15 | 897 ft/min | 15.1 kt | 14.3 kt | End of flight |
The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 2,970 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,970 m of the 3,747 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,944 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A380-800 taxied from the parking to runway 27R at EGLL London Heathrow Airport, a taxi of 9 minutes covering 3 nm.
Take-off was on runway 27R with a distance of 2,615 m, using 67 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 160 kt. Local weather was 22 °C, wind 13 kt from 270°, with a headwind component of 13 kt and no crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 27 seconds, averaging 1,779 fpm and reaching 172 kt at the top. The climb continued from 1,057 ft asl to 5,505 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 9 nm and passing overhead Colnbrook.
The aircraft levelled at 6,000 ft asl for 7 minutes, covering 33 nm, starting 1 mile north of Cobham.
Climb from 6,001 ft asl to 35,000 ft asl took 22 minutes, covering 175 nm, starting overhead Aylesford.
Level flight at 35,000 ft asl continued for 391 minutes, covering 3,418 nm, starting 1 mile north of Wasseiges.
Climb from 35,000 ft asl to 39,000 ft asl took 5 minutes, covering 42 nm, starting 34 miles south of Huocheng.
Level flight at 39,000 ft asl lasted 243 minutes, covering 2,131 nm, starting 30 miles south-east of ZWYN Yining Airport Ili.
Descent from 39,000 ft asl to 1,303 ft asl took 29 minutes, covering 161 nm, beginning 70 miles east of Yatou, with brief level-offs at 3,500 ft asl and 2,600 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 33R at RKSI Incheon International Airport descended from 1,320 ft agl to 68 ft agl in 102 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration on final was flap position 4 at 3,367 ft agl, 185 kt.
Landing on runway 33R (length 3,747 m) had a threshold height of 58 ft agl, slightly above target, and a threshold speed of 140 kt, judged good. The flare was described as great, with the aircraft ballooning in the flare. Touchdown occurred very long, using more than 50 % of the runway; touchdown speed was 140 kt, a little fast, and touchdown rate was excellent at minus 84 fpm. Runway touchdown position was misaligned by 8.3 m from centreline. Local weather was 24 °C, wind 3 kt from 270°, with a crosswind component of 2 kt and a headwind component of 2 kt. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 2,877 m, 77 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.7 m from centreline.
Taxi from the runway to parking took less than 1 minute and covered 1 nm.
The flight covered 5,982 nm in 709 minutes, using 154,712 kg of fuel.
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