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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
Arrival
Steepen the descent on final to rejoin the glideslope, aiming to cross the threshold at 50 ft.
What happened: The approach drifted above the glideslope, carrying the aircraft across the threshold at 277 ft against the 50 ft target. Crossing the threshold high like this usually carries the touchdown point long.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude against 50 ft on short final to confirm the glidepath is recaptured before the threshold.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 144 kt, on the 146 kt target, and lifted off at 150 kt 2.5 s later, the nose coming up at 4.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 168 kt, 11 kt under its 179 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 912 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 5,110 ft of runway left; then climbing at 1,780 fpm on average to 912 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 8,459 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 86 ft at the widest, and lifted off 49 ft left. Airborne 27 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high all the way, gear up until 3.2 nm, sinking too fast from 2.0 nm and left of the centreline from 0.3 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.
High from 3.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to 1,240 ft over).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 1,000 ft 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 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 3.6 nm, where the final began, to 0.3 nm, then 40 ft left of it from 0.3 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 34 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 −2 kt and +11 kt on the approach speed of 136 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. Crossing the threshold 10 kt above target, the flare began at 1 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 7,207 ft past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
8 kt across from the left, which takes about 4° of crab to hold the centreline at 118 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 056° at 15 kt · 13 kt head · 8 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 111 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 11 s, an average deceleration of 0.40 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 8,596 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 277 ft, 227 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 1 ft. Touched down 7,207 ft in, 6,207 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 8,596 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 grew from 210 fpm at the flare to 240 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 8,596 ft of the 9,325 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 72 ft left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 75 ft 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.
Touched down 7,207 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.73 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 04L at KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport in 12 minutes, covering 6 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 04L with a take-off roll of 2,340 ft, which was 28 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 144 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 60 °F, wind 3 kt from 234°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 28 seconds, averaging 2,064 fpm and reaching 168 kt at the top of the segment.
Climb continued from 990 ft asl to 36,000 ft asl in 29 minutes, covering 147 nm, beginning overhead KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport with a brief level-off at 16,000 ft asl.
The aircraft cruised level at 36,000 ft asl for 72 minutes, covering 468 nm, starting 1 mile southwest of Milford.
Descent from 35,985 ft asl to 10,596 ft asl took 14 minutes over 71 nm, beginning 2 miles southeast of KARW Beaufort Executive Airport.
A level segment at 10,600 ft asl lasted 7 minutes, covering 20 nm, starting 3 miles northeast of GA07 Crawford Hendrix Farm Airport.
Descent from 10,470 ft asl to 1,621 ft asl took 14 minutes, covering 36 nm, beginning 3 miles east of 9GA1 Briar Patch Airport.
Final approach to runway 10 at KSAV Savannah Hilton Head International Airport descended from 1,751 ft agl to 122 ft agl in 59 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, centreline, speed, and wings level; they were not met for sink rate and glideslope. Configuration on final was landing gear up at 2 ft agl and 130 kt, with final flap position 8 at 3,877 ft agl and 150 kt.
Landing on runway 10 (runway length 9,325 ft) had a threshold height of 277 ft agl, which was excessively over target, and a threshold speed of 146 kt, slightly above target. The flare was described as good but started late. Touchdown occurred beyond 75 % of the available runway, at a speed of 118 kt (good) and a rate of -244 fpm (fair). The touchdown point was misaligned by 72 ft from the centreline. No bounce was observed.
Total landing distance was 8,150 ft, representing 87 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was misaligned by 88 ft from the centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 73 °F, wind 5 kt from 036°, with a 4 kt crosswind and a 3 kt headwind component.
The flight covered a total of 753 nm in 143 minutes, using 12,769 lb of fuel.
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