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Monitor your taxi speed
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Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 189 kt with 7.4° 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 897 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,119 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,110 fpm on average to 897 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 3,626 m runway.
Rolled from 157 m in, drifted 4.7 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 58 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
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 10 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 4 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 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +4 kt and +5 kt on the approach speed of 140 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
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 52 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 576 m in, 271 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 600 fpm at 50 ft to 120 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.9° 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 3,288 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.5 m of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 070° at 2 kt · 1 kt head · 0 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 576 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 136 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.24 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.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Boeing 777F, then departed from runway 16L at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (KSEA). The takeoff distance was 1,962 meters, which accounted for 54% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 190 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to its initial cruising altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of 18°C temperature and a 5-knot wind at 199°. The crosswind was 2 knots, while the headwind was 4 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile northeast of Des Moines, Washington, and reached an altitude of 29,078 feet above sea level (asl) after climbing 27,734 feet in 17 minutes and covering 109 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which began 10 miles northeast of Goldendale, Washington, and lasted 76 minutes, covering 657 nautical miles. This was followed by another climb phase, which started 4 miles west of Moab, Utah, and reached an altitude of 31,186 feet asl after climbing 1,896 feet in 2 minutes and covering 14 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which began 5 miles northwest of La Sal, Utah, and lasted 110 minutes, covering 872 nautical miles. This was followed by another climb phase, which started 9 miles north of Cienega de Flores, Mexico, and reached an altitude of 33,078 feet asl after climbing 2,009 feet in 3 minutes and covering 27 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which began 3 miles east of Ciudad Benito Juarez, Mexico, and lasted 244 minutes, covering 1,975 nautical miles. This was followed by another climb phase, which started 51 miles west of Salinas, Ecuador, and reached an altitude of 34,328 feet asl after climbing 1,361 feet in 2 minutes and covering 14 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which began 50 miles west of Salinas, Ecuador, and lasted 241 minutes, covering 2,183 nautical miles. The enroute descent started 5 miles southeast of Casilda, Argentina, and descended from 35,184 feet asl to 1,340 feet asl, a decrease of 33,844 feet in 27 minutes and covering 156 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 11 at Minister Pistarini International Airport (SAEZ) was made from the west, heading 102.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,266 feet above ground level (agl). The landing was smooth, with a touchdown speed of 140 knots and a touchdown rate of -121 feet per minute (fpm). The runway touchdown alignment was perfect, and the local weather conditions were 3°C temperature and a 2-knot wind at 70°.
The total landing distance was 1,164 meters, which accounted for 35% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also perfect. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 6,016 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 731 minutes. The aircraft used 104,231 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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