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Work on the flare
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Trim is the hidden variable. In trim, the flare is a small refinement to an aircraft already in equilibrium, a couple of millimetres of stick. Out of trim, you're holding a constant force all the way down final, and the flare becomes a large, badly judged movement stacked on top of a load you're already carrying. A striking proportion of "I can't judge the flare" complaints are trim complaints wearing a disguise. If you're holding pressure at 500 feet, fix that before you practise anything else.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 159 kt with 7.8° 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 952 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,577 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,080 fpm on average to 952 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 2,995 m runway.
Rolled from 139 m in, never more than 1 m off the centreline. 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 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 70 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 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 12 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.
Fast from 4 nm to 1.5 nm (up to +69 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
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 210° at 2 kt · 1 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.
From 142 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 29 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 1,783 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 68 ft, 18 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 654 m in, 350 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 1,783 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 1,840 fpm at 65 ft to 170 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.6° 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 1,783 m of the 2,906 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.9 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.5 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.
Touched down 654 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 5 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-300, then departed from runway 28 at SVVA Arturo Michelena International Airport in Valencia, Venezuela. The takeoff distance was 1,009 meters, which accounted for 34% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 159 knots.
As the aircraft climbed out of the airport, it encountered local weather conditions of 29°C temperature and a wind speed of 0 knots at 93 degrees. The crosswind and headwind were both 0 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile west of the airport and reached an altitude of 35,981 feet above sea level, an increase of 33,534 feet in 16 minutes, covering a distance of 114 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered a level cruise phase, which started 6 miles south-west of SVKC El Carrao Airport in El Regalo, Venezuela. This phase lasted for 149 minutes and covered a distance of 1,206 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its descent, which started 12 miles south-east of Ambo in the Region de Huanuco, Peru. The descent from 36,014 feet to 1,947 feet above sea level, a decrease of 34,067 feet in 23 minutes, covered a distance of 119 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started overhead SPJC Jorge Chavez Intl in Lima-Callao, Peru. This phase lasted for 46 minutes and covered a distance of 99 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another climb, which started 48 miles south-west of Paramonga in Lima, Peru. The climb from 1,702 feet to 9,874 feet above sea level, an increase of 8,173 feet in 3 minutes, covered a distance of 16 nautical miles.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which started 39 miles west of Caleta de Carquin in Lima, Peru. This phase lasted for 9 minutes and covered a distance of 55 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final descent, which started 12 miles south-west of Chancay in Lima, Peru. The descent from 9,979 feet to 1,363 feet above sea level, a decrease of 8,616 feet in 6 minutes, covered a distance of 23 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 16 at SPJC Jorge Chavez Intl was made from the north-west, heading 154.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,278 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 16, which had a length of 2,906 meters. The threshold height was above the target, and the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 149 knots.
The touchdown point was 244 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 142 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was good at -173 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.5 meters from the centreline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 17°C temperature and a wind speed of 2 knots at 210 degrees. The crosswind and headwind were both 1 knot.
The total landing distance was 1,708 meters, which accounted for 59% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,639 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 260 minutes. The aircraft used 30,351 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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