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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 39 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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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 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 7,338 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 655 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.49 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-300ER taxied from the parking area for 8 minutes, covering 1 nm, and departed runway 07L at PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Takeoff used 6,518 ft of runway (62 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 164 kt. Local weather was 37 °F, wind 1 kt from 011°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 0 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 19 seconds, averaging 2,111 fpm and reaching 176 kt at the top. The climb continued from 1,064 ft asl to 25,797 ft asl in 21 minutes, covering 140 nm, beginning 1 mile south-east of LHD Lake Hood Anchorage, with a brief level-off at 25,400 ft asl.
Level flight was held at 26,600 ft asl for 12 minutes, covering 95 nm, starting 17 miles south of PACV Merle K Smith Airport Cordova. A further climb from 27,239 ft asl to 36,868 ft asl lasted 16 minutes, covering 129 nm, beginning 39 miles south of PACY Yakataga Airport Yakataga.
Cruise level was 37,000 ft asl for 62 minutes, covering 496 nm, starting 55 miles south of AK76 East Alsek River Airport Yakutat.
Descent from 36,239 ft asl to 11,996 ft asl took 22 minutes, covering 162 nm, beginning 28 miles north-west of CAH2 Ocean Falls Seaplane Base Ocean Falls. Level flight at 12,000 ft asl lasted 8 minutes, covering 33 nm, starting 15 miles north of CAK6 Camp Cordero Seaplane Base Campbell River.
A further descent from 11,719 ft asl to 11,125 ft asl took 2 minutes, covering 7 nm, beginning 9 miles south-east of CQRA Quatam River. Level flight at 11,900 ft asl lasted 6 minutes, covering 35 nm, starting 14 miles north-east of CAV7 Mansons Landing Seaplane Base Campbell River.
Descent from 11,472 ft asl to 8,411 ft asl took 5 minutes, covering 27 nm, beginning 20 miles north of CAG8 Pender Harbour Seaplane Base Sunshine Coast. Level flight at 8,300 ft asl lasted 6 minutes, covering 25 nm, starting 4 miles west of Squamish.
The final descent from 8,336 ft asl to 1,137 ft asl lasted 12 minutes, covering 36 nm, beginning 3 miles south-east of Gibsons, with a brief level-off at 7,500 ft asl.
On final approach to runway 13 at CYVR Vancouver International Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,158 ft agl to -137 ft agl in 95 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, and wings level; speed was not met at one gate. Configuration was landing gear down at 4,366 ft agl, 152 kt; final flap position 6 at 5,111 ft agl, 156 kt.
Landing occurred on runway 13 (runway length 7,338 ft). Threshold height was good; threshold speed was 197 kt. The flare was very poor, starting late. Touchdown distance was 654 ft; touchdown speed was 192 kt, described as excessively fast. Touchdown rate was -1,126 fpm, very heavy. The touchdown point was misaligned by 40 ft from centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 3,495 ft (48 % of runway). Runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 37 ft from centreline.
Local weather at Vancouver was 55 °F, wind 5 kt from 275°, crosswind 4 kt, tailwind 3 kt. After landing, the aircraft taxied to parking for 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The flight covered 1,194 nm in 186 minutes and used 43,913 lbs of fuel.
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