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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 9.2 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Carry more power on approach to hold 135 kt at the threshold instead of letting speed decay into the flare.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink at 30 ft while already below the speed target, and the aircraft settled as the remaining energy ran out, usually carrying a firm touchdown with it at 352 fpm.
Watch for: Watch airspeed on short final against 135 kt, keeping it there through the flare.
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 171 kt with 7.1° 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 939 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,067 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,720 fpm on average to 939 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 3,259 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 9.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.7 m left. Airborne 28 % 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.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 240 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 24× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 15 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 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 −11 kt and +3 kt on the approach speed of 135 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
Very poor landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 290° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 0 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 120 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.23 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 1,537 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 34 ft, 16 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,092 m in, 787 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 1,537 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.
From 33 ft the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 390 fpm before coming down at 350 fpm to touch. The nose went down 1.1° 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 1,537 m of the 2,094 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.8 m 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.
Touched down 1,092 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
This Boeing 777-200ER took off from runway 34L at Narita International Airport, located in Japan. After a 6-minute taxiing process that covered 3 nautical miles, the aircraft departed the runway at 172 knots of lift-off speed, utilizing 46% of the 1,487-meter runway length. Weather conditions during takeoff included a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius, a wind speed of 3 knots at 340 degrees, and a headwind of 3 knots.
As the aircraft began its enroute climb, it rose from 1,148 feet above sea level to 6,582 feet, a 5,434-foot increase, while covering 10 nautical miles in 2 minutes. The climb continued overhead Narita Airport, followed by level cruising 1 mile north of Ryugasaki Airport, which lasted 2 minutes and covered 6 nautical miles. Subsequent level cruises took place over Ami Airport and at the coordinates Latitude: 35.4262752, Longitude: 143.147516, with the latter lasting 136 minutes and covering 1,270 nautical miles.
During the flight, four significant climbs occurred, taking the aircraft to increasingly higher altitudes. The first of these climbs started at Latitude: 44.7099325, Longitude: 168.1791988 and lasted 2 minutes, with the aircraft reaching 36,503 feet above sea level from 34,675 feet. This climb was followed by another level cruise, lasting 175 minutes and covering 1,540 nautical miles. A subsequent climb took place at Latitude: 45.1090557, Longitude: -154.8306557, during which the aircraft rose 1,987 feet in 3 minutes while covering 30 nautical miles. This climb was followed by a level cruise lasting 213 minutes and covering 1,754 nautical miles.
As the plane approached its destination, it began a descent from 38,907 feet above sea level to 6,633 feet above sea level, a 32,274-foot decrease, while covering 104 nautical miles in 16 minutes. Another level cruise took place 1 mile south east of KMYF Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, lasting 2 minutes and covering 7 nautical miles. The aircraft then continued its descent overhead Spring Valley, California, and finally landed on runway 27 at San Diego International Airport.
The landing on runway 27 resulted in a touchdown point that was very long, utilizing more than 50% of the available runway, and a touchdown speed of 120 knots, which was considered good. The threshold speed was slightly below target at 124 knots. The landing distance was 1,454 meters, accounting for 69% of the 2,094-meter runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good, and the taxiing to the parking area took only 1 minute, while covering less than 1 nautical mile.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 4,897 nautical miles, lasting 585 minutes while consuming 65,966 kilograms of fuel.
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