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MY FS FLIGHTS
Flight Score
Arrival
Wait for the normal flare band and the correct speed before raising the nose, rather than starting the flare at 56 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 56 ft, 11 ft above the normal band, and the touchdown followed at 225 fpm. Starting the flare this early usually carries through to a firmer arrival than a flare begun in the normal band.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: hold the flare start within the normal flare band
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
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 132 kt, on the 131 kt target, and lifted off at 144 kt 2.5 s later, the nose coming up at 4.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 192 kt, 9 kt over 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 904 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,439 m of runway left; gear up at 7 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,430 fpm on average to 904 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 2,722 m runway.
Rolled from 54 m in, never more than 0.8 m off the centreline. 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 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 32 kt above the approach speed of 127 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 3.0 nm, about 1,020 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before 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 30 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 24× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 15 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.0 nm (up to +48 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Great landing flare. It lost 4.1 points, for starting the flare at 56 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 159° at 5 kt · 5 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 116 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 30 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 56 ft, 213 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 26 ft, 24 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 344 m in, close to 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 620 fpm at the flare to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.4° 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 3,200 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 0.3 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.
The 344 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-600 taxied from the parking area to runway 30 at YMHB Hobart International Airport in 5 minutes, covering 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 30 the aircraft used a takeoff distance of 1,003 m, representing 37 % of the runway, and lifted off at 145 kt. Local weather at the time was temperature 16 °C, wind 6 kt from 330°, with a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 5 kt head-wind.
Climb commenced overhead YMHB Hobart International Airport, ascending from 989 ft asl to 39,721 ft asl - an increase of 38,732 ft - in 41 minutes while covering 326 nm.
Level cruise began 5 miles north of YORB Orbost Airport and continued for 165 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 1,231 nm.
Descent started 21 miles south-west of YCDW Cardwell/Dallachy Airport, descending from 39,999 ft asl to 1,299 ft asl - a loss of 38,700 ft - in 19 minutes and covering 120 nm.
The final approach to runway 15 at YBCS Cairns International Airport was executed from the north-west, on a heading of 156.0° at 4 nm and 1,277 ft agl.
Landing on runway 15, which is 3,200 m long, the threshold speed was slightly above target at 129 kt. Touchdown occurred at 339 m down the runway with a speed of 120 kt and a touchdown rate of minus 234 fpm; runway touchdown alignment was very good. Local weather reported temperature 21 °C, wind 5 kt from 160°, with no cross-wind and a 5 kt head-wind.
The total landing distance recorded was 830 m, representing 26 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 1,683 nm, lasted 233 minutes, and consumed 10,218 kg of fuel.
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