Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 15 stages, 13 in the score
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 121 kt, 5 kt below the 126 kt target, and lifted off at 135 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 4.7° a second. Climb 3 averaged 167 kt, 16 kt under its 183 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 817 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,549 m of runway left; gear up at 6 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,940 fpm on average to 817 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 2,862 m runway.
Rolled from 347 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.8 m left. Airborne 37 % 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.
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 500 ft gate: speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 120 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.0 nm, about 290 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
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 16× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 24 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 30 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Outside the speed band 3 times; furthest +37 kt at 4.0 nm.
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 held the target profile well. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 2.3° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 363 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 350° at 8 kt · 8 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 108 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 44 s, an average deceleration of 0.10 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 23 ft. Touched down 363 m in, 59 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 1,524 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 480 fpm at the flare to 120 fpm at 12 ft, then back up to 310 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.2° 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 1,524 m of the 4,009 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.6 m of it down 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 363 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 313 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-600 taxied from the parking area to runway 31R at LFML Marseille Provence Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 31R the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 135 kt and became airborne after a takeoff distance of 1,075 m, representing 38 % of the runway. Ambient conditions were 23 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 260°, giving a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead LFML, climbing from 938 ft asl to 40,507 ft asl, an altitude gain of 39,569 ft achieved in 42 minutes while covering 332 nm.
Cruise began 11 mi south-west of Fiumicino, Italy and was maintained for 158 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 1,293 nm at level altitude.
Descent started 50 mi south-west of Ras Gharib, Egypt, descending from 40,730 ft asl to 1,314 ft asl, a loss of 39,417 ft in 16 minutes and traversing 107 nm.
The final approach to runway 34R at HEGN Hurghada International Airport was executed from the south on a heading of 345.0° at 4 nm and 1,244 ft agl. The aircraft then descended from 1,286 ft agl to 19 ft agl in 108 seconds, meeting the stabilisation gates criteria.
Landing on runway 34R, which is 4,009 m long, was performed with a threshold speed of 123 kt. Touchdown occurred 364 m down the runway at 112 kt and a vertical speed of minus 191 fpm; the touchdown point was 9.7 m off the centreline. Local weather was 36 °C with a wind of 8 kt from 350°, providing a 1 kt cross-wind and an 8 kt head-wind. The total landing distance recorded was 761 m, equal to 19 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was noted as 17.5 m off the centreline after the touchdown.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,743 nm, required 223 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 8,974 kg of fuel.
Scroll or drag the slider to zoom · double-click to reset · hover for values