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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 11 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Reduce power earlier on final to bring threshold speed back to 135 kt.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 137 kt against a target of 135 kt, and touchdown followed at 101 m, well short of the 457 m aim point. Carrying extra speed over the threshold usually floats the flare and carries the touchdown point short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator, target 135 kt at the threshold.
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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2 landings
The flight is kept as it was recorded: it ends when the engine is shut down, so a landing with the rotors turning is a stop along the way, not a new flight.
| # | Where | Into flight | Touchdown | Ground speed | Sideways | On the ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LEPP · Pamplona Airport | 9:07 | 11 ft/min | 1.0 kt | 0.1 kt | 0:29 |
| 2 | LEPP · Pamplona Airport | 12:05 | 20 ft/min | 0.0 kt | 0.0 kt | End of flight |
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 174 kt, 20 kt above the 154 kt target, and lifted off at 182 kt 2.5 s later, the nose coming up at 1.6° a second. Climb 3 averaged 197 kt, 22 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 907 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,650 m of runway left; gear up at 432 ft, 32 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,520 fpm on average to 907 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 3,653 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 21 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 44 % 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.
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 70 ft below 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 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 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 −4 kt and +11 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
The aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 350° at 7 kt · 6 kt head · 2 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 134 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 37 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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 1,525 m of the approach.
Began the flare late, at 1 ft; crossed the threshold at 48 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 101 m before the threshold.
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 1,525 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.
Plan view — the first 1,525 m of the 3,014 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
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 101 m short of the threshold. The 2.35 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 departed from runway 26R at LFPG Charles de Gaulle International Airport. The take-off roll used 1,625 m, 44 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 174 kt. Local weather was 16 °C with wind 6 kt from 260° (crosswind 1 kt, headwind 6 kt).
Initial climb reached 1,000 ft agl in 19 seconds, averaging 2,238 fpm and attaining 197 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 1,321 ft asl to 32,726 ft asl in 25 minutes, covering 171 nm while remaining overhead LFPG.
Cruise continued at 33,000 ft asl for 92 minutes, covering 756 nm, beginning 1 mile north-west of Rouvres-la-Chetive. A subsequent climb from 33,002 ft asl to 34,999 ft asl took 3 minutes over 27 nm, starting 9 miles north of Crasna din Deal. Level flight between 35,000 ft asl and 39,000 ft asl lasted 603 minutes, covering 5,469 nm, beginning 2 miles south of Baile Olanesti.
Descent began from 39,008 ft asl to 12,981 ft asl in 13 minutes, covering 113 nm, starting 7 miles south-east of Toyokawa. The aircraft levelled at 12,900 ft asl for 6 minutes, covering 34 nm, starting 7 miles south of RJTE JMSDF Tateyama Air Base. A further descent from 12,922 ft asl to 1,261 ft asl took 11 minutes, covering 38 nm, starting 5 miles south of Katsuura.
Final approach to runway 34R at RJTT Tokyo Haneda International Airport descended from 1,277 ft agl to 12 ft agl in 105 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 6,162 ft agl, 229 kt; final flap position 4 at 4,919 ft agl, 184 kt.
The aircraft touched down on runway 34R 101 m short of the threshold; the threshold was never crossed in the air. Threshold speed was 137 kt. Touchdown speed was 138 kt, a little fast, with a very heavy rate of -1,085 fpm. The touchdown point was 3.4 m off centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,562 m, 52 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Local weather at landing was 24 °C with wind 6 kt from 350° (crosswind 2 kt, headwind 6 kt). After landing, taxiing to the parking area took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 6,617 nm in 768 minutes and used 81,977 kg of fuel.
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