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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Add power earlier on final to cross the threshold at 150 kt; flying it on speed removes the urge to flare early.
What happened: This flight crossed the threshold at 139 kt, slow against target, then began the flare early at 65 ft. An early flare following a slow threshold speed usually lets the sink rate build back before touchdown, producing the firm touchdown recorded here.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 150 kt at 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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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,446 m runway.
Rolled from 98 m in, drifted 6.3 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 6 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 45 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 951 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,412 m of runway left; gear up at 7 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,390 fpm on average to 951 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at: a trace steeper than both is a faster rotation, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 12.1°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 150 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: low until 2.9 nm, slow from 2.9 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 3.4 nm, then low to 2.9 nm (up to 420 ft under), then back on it to the threshold.
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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 m off the centreline.
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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to 3.2 nm (up to −18 kt), then inside the band to 2.9 nm, then slow to the threshold (up to −18 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
The flare held the target profile well
The flare began at 65 ft agl above the runway, higher than this type wants. Touchdown was 406 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 65 ft, 75 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 51 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 406 m in, 101 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 750 fpm at the flare to 260 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° on the way down. Into the flare at 139 kt, 11 kt under the 150 kt approach speed, and 134 kt at touchdown.
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 3,881 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.9 m of it down the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 160° at 9 kt · 9 kt head · 1 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 406 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 126 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 140 s, an average deceleration of 0.04 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.
The rest of the report
Departing Perth International Airport, the Boeing 747-8 began its journey on runway 21, taking off with a takeoff distance of 1,554 meters, which accounted for 45% of the runway. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 171 knots, overcoming a crosswind of 7 knots and a tailwind of 8 knots. The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 32 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 11 knots from 329 degrees.
As the aircraft climbed to its cruising altitude, it passed overhead Cloverdale, a town in the state of Western Australia. The enroute climb phase saw the aircraft ascend from 1,040 feet above sea level to 39,015 feet, an increase of 37,975 feet in 22 minutes, covering a distance of 158 nautical miles. The enroute level cruise phase followed, lasting 187 minutes and covering 1,572 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, starting 12 miles west of Oakdale, a town in the state of New South Wales. The descent phase saw the aircraft decrease its altitude from 39,007 feet to 1,012 feet in 20 minutes, covering a distance of 119 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 16R at Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport was made from the north, with the aircraft heading 168.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 985 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 134 knots and a distance of 409 meters. The touchdown rate was slightly hard at -416 feet per minute, but the runway touchdown alignment was very good. The total landing distance was 1,171 meters, accounting for 30% of the runway. After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, taking 3 minutes to cover a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,860 nautical miles, taking 239 minutes and consuming 32,276 kilograms of fuel.
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