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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 220 m past the target, landing at 677 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.
Below 10,000 ft you are typically limited to 250 kt indicated (a US rule that much of the world mirrors in some form, though not universally). This forces a deceleration around 10,000 ft whether the profile wants one or not, so plan for it rather than discovering it.
Start to finish · 14 stages, 13 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 152 kt, 8 kt above the 144 kt target, and lifted off at 167 kt 3.8 s later, the nose coming up at 2.1° a second. Climb 3 averaged 203 kt, 24 kt over its 179 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 1,026 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 974 m of runway left; gear up at 101 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,200 fpm on average to 1,026 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 2,744 m runway.
Rolled from 72 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.7 m left. Airborne 55 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
Still turning onto final at the lower gate, so the centreline and wings level are not asked there - the aeroplane was not lined up yet, and was banked because it was turning. The other checks are marked as usual.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.8 to 0.4 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 0.4 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 100 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,824 m right of the centreline, then drifted 61 m left between 1.1 and 0.8 nm, then back inside it from 0.8 to 0.4 nm, then 13 m right of it from 0.4 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 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +9 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 flare tracked the target profile exactly. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 677 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.
11 kt across from the left, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 135 kt. Touched down with 5° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 180° at 12 kt · 2 kt tail · 11 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 34 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 2,117 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 677 m in, 372 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 2,117 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 460 fpm at the flare to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.6° 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 2,117 m of the 2,986 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8.6 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 3.5 m right by the end of 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 677 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 departed from runway 04 at EGSS London Stansted Airport. Take-off was performed using 1,522 m of runway (55 % of the available length). Rotation occurred at 152 kt. Local weather was 13 °C with wind 9 kt from 009°, giving a 5 kt crosswind and an 8 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 26 seconds, averaging 1,945 fpm and reaching 210 kt at the top of the segment. The aircraft then climbed from 1,423 ft asl to 39,205 ft asl in 25 minutes, covering 146 nm, beginning the climb about 1 mile east of Elsenham.
Cruise was maintained at 39,300 ft asl for 105 minutes, covering 576 nm, with the cruise segment starting roughly 26 miles south of Goring-by-Sea.
Descent began from 39,391 ft asl and proceeded to 412 ft asl in 33 minutes, covering 184 nm. The descent started about 4 miles west of Mazaleon and included a brief level-off at 1,700 ft asl.
During final approach to runway 28 at LEAL Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,355 ft agl to 34 ft agl in 103 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on speed. Configuration changes were recorded at 3,946 ft agl with gear down at 284 kt, and final flap position 7 at 3,176 ft agl with 253 kt.
Landing was made on runway 28 (runway length 2,986 m). The threshold height of 56 ft agl was slightly above target, while the threshold speed of 137 kt was good. The flare was described as perfect; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 267 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 135 kt, noted as a little fast, with a vertical rate of minus 218 fpm (fair). The touchdown point was misaligned by 8.6 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 21 °C with wind 9 kt from 180°, giving a 9 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind. No bounce was observed.
The total landing roll was 2,044 m, representing 68 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was very good. The entire flight covered 912 nm in 135 minutes and consumed 5,363 kg of fuel.
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