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Arrival
Make small rudder corrections against a fixed point at the far end of the runway to stop the drift as soon as it starts in the flare.
What happened: On the landing you drifted 29 m off the centreline, and that kind of lateral drift usually carries through to a touchdown point 29 m off centreline and into a rollout that is still skewed off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Heading indicator: track straight down the extended runway centreline through touchdown and rollout.
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 140 kt, 10 kt below the 150 kt target, and lifted off at 151 kt 1.9 s later, the nose coming up at 2.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 184 kt, 9 kt over its 175 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 881 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,604 m of runway left; gear up at 338 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,700 fpm on average to 881 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 3,030 m runway.
Rolled from 216 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 10 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.2 m left. Airborne 38 % 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 33 kt above the approach speed of 132 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 20 kt above the approach speed of 132 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.3 to 0.4 nm, then not again: left of the centreline from 0.4 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 40 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 16× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.4 nm, then 24 m left of it from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 1.3 nm (up to +53 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
The flare strayed well off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 0.4° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 336 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 014° at 4 kt · 3 kt head · 2 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 128 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 24 s, an average deceleration of 0.22 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.
Crossed the threshold at 21 ft, 29 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 6 ft. Touched down 336 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 640 fpm at the flare to 520 fpm at touchdown. 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 1,524 m of the 2,796 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 29 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 12 m left by the end of 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 336 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 517 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A350-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 34L at RJTT Tokyo Haneda International Airport in 4 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 34L with a take-off distance of 1,153 m (38 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 140 kt. Local weather was 22 °C with wind 3 kt from 059°, a 3 kt crosswind and no headwind.
The initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 16 seconds, averaging 2,676 fpm and reaching 189 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 979 ft asl to 39,949 ft asl in 22 minutes, covering 146 nm while remaining overhead RJTT.
Level flight was maintained at 40,000 ft asl for 40 minutes, covering 286 nm, beginning 13 miles south-west of Nirasaki.
Descent began from 39,957 ft asl and proceeded to 1,388 ft asl in 26 minutes, covering 154 nm. The descent started 8 miles north of Hiroshima and included a brief level-off at 5,000 ft asl.
On final approach to runway 34 at RJFF Fukuoka Airport, the aircraft descended from 1,398 ft agl to 90 ft agl in 90 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met. Configuration was landing gear down at 1,385 ft agl with 192 kt, and final flap position 4 at 600 ft agl with 159 kt.
Landing on runway 34 was completed with a good threshold height and a threshold speed of 130 kt. The flare was described as very good; the aircraft dropped onto the runway at the end of the flare. Touchdown occurred at 128 kt, a distance of 336 m down the runway, with a very hard rate of minus 517 fpm. The touchdown point was significantly misaligned by 29.2 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,150 m (41 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 17.4 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 19 °C with wind 2 kt from 310°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 6 minutes, covering 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 596 nm in 100 minutes and used 11,025 kg of fuel.
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