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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 7.2 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Fly the flare as one continuous check of the sink rate from 37 ft, holding back pressure steadily rather than adjusting pitch piecemeal.
What happened: The flare drifted away from its intended profile rather than tracking it smoothly from 37 ft down to touchdown.
Watch for: Watch radio altitude and VSI through the flare, aiming to arrest the sink smoothly from 37 ft to touchdown.
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 185 kt with 4.3° of pitch.
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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 886 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,319 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,340 fpm on average to 886 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,452 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 7.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.4 m right. Airborne 51 % 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.
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 220 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 13× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 29 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 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −4 kt and +10 kt on the approach speed of 137 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
Very poor landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 360° 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 126 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 42 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 2,186 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 62 ft, 12 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 828 m in, 523 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 2,186 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 670 fpm at 62 ft to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° 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 2,186 m of the 4,173 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 2.3 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.
Touched down 828 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Hong Kong International Airport, the Airbus A300 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the designated runway, a process that took 16 minutes and covered a distance of 5 nautical miles. As the aircraft reached the runway threshold, it initiated its departure roll on runway 07C, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 186 knots. The takeoff distance of 1,774 meters, which accounted for 51% of the runway, was achieved in a relatively short period.
Following a smooth takeoff, the aircraft began its enroute climb, ascending from 979 feet above sea level to 13,998 feet in just 7 minutes, covering a distance of 38 nautical miles. The climb phase was followed by a level cruise, which lasted for 14 minutes and spanned 102 nautical miles. The aircraft continued to climb again, this time from 14,225 feet to 32,703 feet, an increase of 18,478 feet in 22 minutes, covering 187 nautical miles. The subsequent level cruise phase was the longest, lasting 321 minutes and covering 1,324 nautical miles. As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its descent, reducing its altitude from 32,999 feet to 1,639 feet in 21 minutes, covering 110 nautical miles.
The Airbus A300 finally touched down on runway 34L at Narita International Airport, with a touchdown point located 413 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed of 129 knots was slightly above the target, but the touchdown rate of -175 feet per minute was satisfactory. The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the runway rollout alignment was also spot on. The total landing distance of 2,106 meters, which accounted for 50% of the runway, was achieved with minimal deviation. Following a short taxiing period of 3 minutes, the aircraft came to a stop at the parking area, marking the end of its 1,773-nautical-mile journey, which had lasted 229 minutes and consumed 20,596 kilograms of fuel.
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