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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 143 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Raise the nose more slowly in the flare and stop as soon as the sink is checked; if it balloons, hold the attitude.
What happened: The flare ballooned, with 530 fpm of sink returning after the arrest; a balloon like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown, as it did here at 499 fpm.
Watch for: The runway ahead: the aircraft still sinking gently towards it through the flare, never rising.
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.
Read more in Flare TimingStart to finish · 24 stages, 22 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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed above the reference speed.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 8,899 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2,624 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 2.42 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing journey from the parking area to the runway, which took 12 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Boeing B737-800, then departed from San Francisco International Airport on runway 01L and took off with a speed of 119 kt. The local weather at the time of departure was a pleasant temperature of 65°F.
As the aircraft ascended, it began climbing enroute from 2 miles east of Brisbane, California, reaching an altitude of 31,910 ft. This climb from 961 ft to 31,910 ft was achieved in just 12 minutes, covering a distance of 44 nautical miles. The aircraft then transitioned to an enroute level cruise, initially above Day Valley, which lasted for 21 minutes and covered 138 nautical miles.
The first descent of the flight started 6 miles east of Lost Hills Airport and involved a decrease in altitude from 31,995 ft to 9,318 ft, covering a distance of 73 nautical miles in 16 minutes. Following this descent, the aircraft began another enroute level cruise, this time starting 3 miles east of Santa Paula and lasting for 109 minutes, although this cruise covered a very short distance of less than 1 nautical mile.
The second descent started 3 miles east of Santa Paula and involved a drop in altitude from 9,318 ft to 6,022 ft, covering 21 nautical miles in 7 minutes. Subsequent enroute level cruises took place 3 miles south of Agoura, lasting 5 minutes and covering 14 nautical miles, and then 1 mile north of View Park-Windsor Hills, lasting 3 minutes and covering 10 nautical miles.
Further descents occurred, including one from 5,998 ft to 5,354 ft over Santa Monica Municipal Airport in 2 minutes, and another from 4,694 ft to 4,210 ft over Monterey Park in 2 minutes. A prolonged enroute level cruise then ensued, lasting 255 minutes and covering 9 nautical miles, with the starting point being overhead South El Monte.
The final descent started over Bell and involved a decrease in altitude from 3,068 ft to 1,375 ft in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 6 nautical miles. The aircraft then proceeded to Los Angeles International Airport, beginning a final approach to runway 24R from the east at a height of 1,239 ft above ground level (agl) and at a distance of 4 nautical miles from the airport.
As the aircraft landed on runway 24R, it had a threshold height significantly above target at 87 ft agl, but a threshold speed well above target at 136 kt. The touchdown point was 1,224 ft beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 129 kt, slightly above target, and a very hard touchdown rate of -563 fpm. Unfortunately, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 31 ft from the centreline. The local weather at the time of landing was a warm temperature of 75°F.
The total landing distance was 4,366 ft, which accounted for 49% of the runway's length. Following the landing, the aircraft experienced a slightly misaligned runway rollout alignment by 26 ft from the centreline.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 334 nautical miles, lasting 105 minutes, and consumed 4,764 pounds of fuel.
The Boeing B737-800 aircraft successfully landed at KLAX Los Angeles International Airport on runway 24R from the east. The final approach was initiated at a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway and an altitude of 1,239 feet above ground level (agl) with a heading of 263.0 degrees.
Unfortunately, this landing received a score of 79.9%, indicating areas of improvement for the pilots. The main points of concern include the landing threshold height, which was significantly above the target at 87 feet agl, and the threshold speed, which was well above the target at 136 knots. This excessive speed during the final approach likely contributed to a harder touchdown.
At the moment of touchdown, the aircraft was traveling at a speed of 129 knots, which was slightly faster than the desired speed. Furthermore, the touchdown rate was very hard at -563 feet per minute (fpm), indicating a potentially hazardous impact.
Additionally, the touchdown point was located 1,224 feet beyond the designated touchdown zone, and the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 31 feet from the centerline. The aircraft's landing distance covered 4,366 feet, which constituted 49 percent of the runway length.
The landing also showed some minor issues in the rollout alignment, which was slightly misaligned by 26 feet from the centerline. The local weather, with a temperature of 75 °F, appeared to be suitable for landing.
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