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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Adjust your approach path so you touch down at the 457 m aim point instead of beyond it.
What happened: Touchdown point came 699 m past the target, landing at 1,156 m against the 457 m aim point. Landings that touch down this far beyond the aim point typically leave less runway available for stopping.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from 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 168 kt, 6 kt above the 162 kt target, and lifted off at 177 kt 2.7 s later, the nose coming up at 1.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 189 kt, 14 kt over its 175 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 934 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,646 m of runway left; gear up at 87 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,210 fpm on average to 934 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,986 m runway.
Rolled from 120 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.2 m right. Airborne 50 % 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. 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: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 3.4 nm, then not again: low from 3.4 nm and right 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 3.4 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 380 ft under).
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 8× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then 12 m right 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 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then slow to 0.3 nm (up to −15 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
The flare tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 1,156 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 032° at 1 kt · 1 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 152 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.37 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 1,918 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 25 ft, 25 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 9 ft. Touched down 1,156 m in, 851 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 1,918 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 the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 190 fpm before coming down at 60 fpm to touch. The nose came up 2.5° 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 1,918 m of the 3,012 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 5.3 m left of the centreline and drifted to 9.6 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.
Touched down 1,156 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 24L at EDDB Berlin Brandenburg Airport, a movement that lasted 9 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 24L. The aircraft used 2 003 m of runway, about 50 % of its length, and rotated at 168 kt. Outside air temperature was 10 °C, wind was 1 kt from 062°, with a 0 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 23 seconds, averaging 2 075 fpm and reaching 192 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1 139 ft asl to 23 775 ft asl in 16 minutes, covering 96 nm, beginning about 1 mile south-west of EDDB. Level cruise at 24 000 ft asl followed for 12 minutes, covering 90 nm, starting about 1 mile south of Bahrdorf. A further climb from 24 002 ft asl to 33 997 ft asl lasted 12 minutes and covered 93 nm, beginning about 1 mile west of Buende. The aircraft then flew level between 34 000 ft asl and 40 000 ft asl for 654 minutes, covering 5 119 nm, starting 2 miles east of Vaassen.
Descent began from 39 629 ft asl to 4 224 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 120 nm, with the segment starting 14 miles south-east of Nueva Guinea.
Final approach to runway 07 at MROC Juan Santamaría International Airport started from 1 268 ft agl and descended to 381 ft agl in 97 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, centreline, speed and wings level; the glideslope check was not met. The landing gear was lowered at 4 507 ft agl at 225 kt, and the final flap position 4 was selected at 2 422 ft agl at 162 kt.
Landing on runway 07 was made with a threshold speed of 146 kt, slightly above target. The flare was described as excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 742 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 143 kt, a little fast, with a vertical rate of minus 63 fpm. The touchdown point was 5.3 m off the centreline, but no bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1 840 m, 61 % of the runway length. Rollout alignment was slightly off centreline by 9.3 m.
Local weather at MROC was 21 °C, wind 1 kt from 034°, with a 1 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind component.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
The entire flight covered 5 527 nm in 725 minutes and consumed 78 594 kg of fuel.
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