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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Reduce power sooner on final so you cross the threshold at 129 kt, carrying that speed into the flare.
What happened: Crossing the threshold at 138 kt, 9 kt above 129 kt, usually leaves extra energy that lets the sink come back after the flare has arrested it, and that returning sink usually carries through to a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 129 kt at the threshold.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 142 kt with 12.3° of pitch.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 958 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 186 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,720 fpm on average to 958 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 1,317 m runway.
Rolled from 108 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 3.5 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 m left. Airborne 71 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with six checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.5 nm, about 240 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 60 ft above the slope.
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 20× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 19 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.8 nm, then fast to 0.5 nm (up to +16 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Very poor landing flare
16 kt across from the left, which takes about 7° of crab to hold the centreline at 130 kt. Touched down with 4° of it still on, 3° of bank.
Wind 160° at 17 kt · 1 kt tail · 16 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 138 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 58 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 73 ft, 23 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 568 m in, 263 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 1,110 fpm at 70 ft to 580 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.5° on the way down.
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 2,996 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.2 m right of the centreline and drifted to 6.9 m left on the rollout.
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 568 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 20L at Santos Dumont Airport, with a takeoff distance of 835 meters, which was 63% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 142 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 32 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 13 knots at 170 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 1 knot and a headwind of 13 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile south east of Rio de Janeiro, and climbed from 1,048 feet above sea level to 34,804 feet above sea level, an increase of 33,755 feet, in 13 minutes and covering 60 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 12 miles north of Pinheiral, and lasted 7 minutes, covering 33 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its first descent, starting 20 miles south east of Baependi, and descended from 34,512 feet above sea level to 24,960 feet above sea level, a decrease of 9,552 feet, in 3 minutes and covering 22 nautical miles. This was followed by another enroute level cruise, starting 1 mile north west of Porto Real, and lasting 8 minutes, covering 53 nautical miles.
The aircraft then began its second descent, starting 8 miles south east of Guaratingueta, and descended from 24,526 feet above sea level to 15,785 feet above sea level, a decrease of 8,741 feet, in 3 minutes and covering 20 nautical miles. Another enroute level cruise followed, starting 11 miles south east of SBTA Base de Aviação de Taubaté Taubaté, and lasting 2 minutes, covering 9 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its third descent, starting 11 miles south east of Cacapava, and descended from 15,373 feet above sea level to 8,876 feet above sea level, a decrease of 6,497 feet, in 3 minutes and covering 18 nautical miles.
The next enroute level cruise started 5 miles north of Santa Branca, and lasted 2 minutes, covering 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its fourth descent, starting 2 miles south west of Jacarei, and descended from 8,248 feet above sea level to 3,729 feet above sea level, a decrease of 4,519 feet, in 6 minutes and covering 22 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 28L at SBGR André Franco Montoro International Airport was made from the east, heading 254.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,268 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 28L, which had a length of 2,996 meters. The threshold height at 74 feet above ground level was well above target, and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 139 knots.
The touchdown point was 156 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 130 knots, which was good. However, the touchdown rate was hard at -426 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 17 knots at 160 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 17 knots and a tailwind of 1 knot.
The total landing distance was 1,390 meters, which was 46% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 8.5 meters from the centreline. The
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