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Departure
Use coordinated aileron input to level the wings and hold bank angle close to wings-level during the climb.
What happened: During the initial climb, your average bank angle drifted to 5.1°.
Watch for: Attitude indicator, bank angle near wings-level
Arrival
Begin raising the nose sooner, starting the flare by 11 ft to give the sink time to be arrested before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 0.3 ft, 11 ft below the normal band; a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink, and a bounce often follows at touchdown.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: begin the flare by 11 ft
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.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 155 kt, 4 kt below the 159 kt target, and lifted off at 160 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 3.3° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 166 kt target, at 170 kt on average.
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 963 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,537 m of runway left; gear up at 9 ft, inside the 645 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,240 fpm on average to 963 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 3,439 m runway.
Rolled from 126 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 8.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 9 m right, in 8 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 47 % 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 six 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 5 kt below the approach speed of 147 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 147 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: gear up all the way and slow all the way.
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 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 10 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 37 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −8 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
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare began at 0 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 334 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 241° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 1 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.
Side view — the last 1,569 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 38 ft, 12 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 0 ft. Touched down 334 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 1,569 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 stayed between 120 fpm and 640 fpm from the flare to the runway. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,569 m of the 2,502 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.6 m right at the widest.
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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 334 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.17 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The A343 taxied from the parking area to runway 24 at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, a movement that lasted 12 minutes and covered 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 24 with a distance of 1,630 m, representing 47 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 155 kt. Local weather at departure was 14 °C, wind 14 kt from 260°, giving a 5 kt crosswind component and a 13 kt headwind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 44 seconds, averaging 1,231 fpm and reaching 183 kt at the top of the segment.
The aircraft then climbed from 991 ft asl to 33,600 ft asl in 24 minutes, covering 145 nm, beginning the climb 1 mile west of Aalsmeerderbrug.
A cruise segment at 34,000 ft asl lasted 94 minutes and covered 606 nm, starting 25 mi north-east of Cromer.
A subsequent climb from 34,036 ft asl to 36,000 ft asl took 3 minutes and covered 20 nm, beginning at latitude 56.0370903, longitude -15.166502.
The aircraft then levelled at 36,000 ft asl for 210 minutes, covering 1,470 nm, starting at latitude 56.1674194, longitude -15.7547922.
A further climb from 35,989 ft asl to 38,004 ft asl lasted 3 minutes and covered 26 nm, beginning 16 mi west of CCR1 Red Bay.
Cruise at 38,000 ft asl continued for 112 minutes, covering 915 nm, starting 8 mi west of CYBX Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon Airport.
Descent began from 37,999 ft asl and proceeded to 9,316 ft asl in 20 minutes, covering 119 nm. The descent started overhead Saugerties and included a brief level-off at 18,000 ft asl.
The total flight covered 3,305 nm, lasted 477 minutes, and consumed 58,417 kg of fuel.
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