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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Use small, coordinated rudder and aileron inputs to hold your assigned climb heading as soon as drift begins.
What happened: During the second climb segment, you let the aircraft drift off the assigned heading.
Watch for: Heading indicator: steady on the assigned climb heading
Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline.
What happened: You drifted off the centreline on the approach.
Watch for: Runway centreline: tracked all the way to the threshold.
See Arrival Approach
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 · 16 stages, 14 scored
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: seven 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.
At the 500 ft gate: centreline 1.1° off, against a 1° limit.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,097 m of the approach.
Plan view — the full 1,097 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 365 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 13 at LELL Sabadell Airfield, a movement that lasted 15 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 13, the take-off run was 261 m, representing 24 % of the runway length. Liftoff occurred at 52 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 31 °C, wind from 120° at 10 kt, with a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 10 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced overhead Barbera del Valles, rising from 1,340 ft asl to 3,767 ft asl - an increase of 2,427 ft - in 4 minutes while covering 4 nm.
The first cruise segment began over Cerdanyola del Valles and continued for 21 minutes, during which 32 nm were flown at level altitude.
Descent started 1 mile south-west of Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, descending from 3,690 ft asl to 1,840 ft asl - a loss of 1,850 ft - in 2 minutes and covering 3 nm.
A second level cruise was flown over Sabadell for 3 minutes, adding another 4 nm to the flight path.
The final approach to runway 13 was executed from the north-west, on a heading of 125.0°, at 1 nm distance and 886 ft agl.
Landing on runway 13 occurred with a runway length of 1,097 m. The threshold speed was 62 kt, touchdown distance measured 359 m, touchdown speed was 43 kt, and the vertical speed at touchdown was minus 115 fpm. Weather at the time was a temperature of 32 °C, wind from 119° at 12 kt, with a 2 kt cross-wind and a 12 kt head-wind component.
Rollout continued for a total landing distance of 507 m, representing 46 % of the runway, with alignment maintained throughout the rollout.
The aircraft taxied back to the parking area, a movement that lasted 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 47 nm, required 39 minutes of flight time, and consumed 5 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A350-900 executed a final approach to runway 19 at Cape Town International Airport from the north, on a heading of 165.0° at 4 nm and 1,368 ft agl. The approach was assessed as stabilised at the 1,000 ft gate, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
At the threshold the runway measured 3,203 m and the threshold height was reported as good. The threshold speed was good at 138 kt.
Touchdown occurred 86 m beyond the touchdown zone with a speed of 136 kt, noted as a little fast, and a firm vertical rate of minus 329 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.8 m from the centreline. Ambient conditions were 27 °C with wind 10 kt from 200°, comprising a 6 kt cross-wind component and an 8 kt head-wind component.
The aircraft rolled out after travelling a total landing distance of 1,604 m, representing 50 % of the runway, and the rollout alignment was perfect.
With a score of 97.3 % the landing was strong; reducing touchdown speed to the threshold value of 138 kt and aiming to arrest the aircraft within the designated touchdown zone will tighten the margin and further improve the touchdown point. Maintaining the current flare technique while moderating speed will also help soften the firm rate observed.
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