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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 15 stages, 13 scored
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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 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,495 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 356 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Taxiing from the parking area to the runway at KIAD Washington Dulles International Airport took 6 minutes and covered 2 nautical miles. The Embraer E175 then began its departure roll on runway 19C, utilizing 1,345 meters or 38% of the runway's length to achieve liftoff at a speed of 151 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure featured a temperature of 33°C, with a wind of 19 knots at 210°, resulting in a crosswind of 9 knots and a headwind of 16 knots.
As the aircraft climbed away from KIAD, it transitioned into an enroute climb, ascending from 1,133 feet above sea level to 32,001 feet in 11 minutes, covering a distance of 98 nautical miles. The climb phase was followed by a 34-minute enroute level cruise, during which the aircraft maintained a steady altitude and covered 632 nautical miles. The cruise phase concluded near Garrett, Pennsylvania, after which the aircraft began its enroute descent, reducing its altitude from 31,984 feet to 2,173 feet in 16 minutes, while covering 114 nautical miles. The descent phase ended 2 miles east of Osseo, Wisconsin.
The Embraer E175 then commenced its final approach to runway 12L at KMSP Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, aligning itself with the runway from the northwest. The aircraft touched down on the runway at a speed of 133 knots, with a touchdown distance of 360 meters. However, the touchdown rate was somewhat hard at -569 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 5.9 meters. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, taking 1 minute to cover less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 851 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 68 minutes and a fuel consumption of 3,030 kilograms.
The Embraer E175 touched down on runway 12L at KMSP Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, with a threshold height of 61 ft agl, exceeding the target by a considerable margin. The aircraft's approach quality was satisfactory, with a heading of 121.0° from the northwest at 4 nm and 1,333 ft agl. The threshold speed of 137 kt was significantly above the target, indicating a high level of pilot control and confidence.
The touchdown characteristics were notable, with a touchdown distance of 360 m, which was within acceptable limits. However, the touchdown speed of 133 kt was slightly above the target, and the touchdown rate of -569 fpm was very hard, suggesting a high degree of deceleration upon touchdown. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 5.9 m, which may have contributed to the subsequent rollout issues.
The aircraft's rollout was marked by a significant deviation from the centreline, with an alignment error of 15.5 m. The total landing distance of 1,390 m was 57% of the runway length, which is within acceptable limits. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 25 °C and winds of 14 kt at 160°, may have played a role in the landing performance. Overall, the Embraer E175 achieved a score of 88.0%, reflecting a good but not outstanding performance.
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