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Arrival
Fly a slightly steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft rather than above it.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold 109 ft agl above 50 ft agl, carried extra speed through the flare instead of losing it, and touched down well beyond the aim point. Crossing the threshold high like this usually carries through to extra speed at touchdown and a touchdown point long of the target.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: 50 ft at the threshold.
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 · 17 stages, 14 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 152 kt, 9 kt below the 161 kt target, and lifted off at 160 kt 1.7 s later, the nose coming up at 1.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 166 kt target, at 168 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 806 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,859 m of runway left; gear up at 586 ft, inside the 698 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,440 fpm on average to 806 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 4,091 m runway.
Rolled from 237 m in, drifted 5.1 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 44 % 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.
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 153 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: high from 0.7 nm and slow from 0.6 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 110 ft over).
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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 27 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 38 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 23 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Outside the speed band 3 times; furthest −12 kt at 3.8 nm.
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 wandered off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.1° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 779 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 247° at 7 kt · 7 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 67 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 5 s, an average deceleration of 0.36 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 159 ft, 109 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 10 ft. Touched down 779 m in, 474 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 780 fpm at the flare to 560 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.7° 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 3,986 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 12 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 12 m left 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.
Touched down 779 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 2.78 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-300ER commenced its departure roll on runway 14R at LEMD, using 1,815 m (44 % of the runway) and achieving a liftoff speed of 160 kt. Ambient conditions were 38 °C with a 3 kt wind from 342°, a 1 kt cross-wind component and a 2 kt tail-wind component.
Climb began overhead the Madrid-Barajas airport, ascending from 2,783 ft asl to 38,000 ft asl - a gain of 35,217 ft - over 15 minutes while covering 97 nm.
Cruise was established 5 nm east of San Esteban de Gormaz and persisted for 83 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 670 nm.
Descent commenced over Ettelbruck, Luxembourg, dropping from 38,002 ft asl to 8,005 ft asl - a loss of 29,998 ft - in 16 minutes and spanning 124 nm.
A brief level segment followed over Offenbach, Germany, lasting 2 minutes and covering 8 nm.
The next descent started 1 mi south-west of Rodenbach, Germany, decreasing altitude from 7,992 ft asl to 1,638 ft asl - a reduction of 6,354 ft - in 9 minutes and extending 29 nm.
Final approach to runway 25L at EDDF was flown from the east on a heading of 250.0°, intercepting the glide path at 4 nm and 1,290 ft agl.
A go-around was executed on runway 25L at an altitude of 172 ft agl before a subsequent approach was attempted.
Landing on runway 25L, which measures 3,986 m, occurred with a threshold height of 159 ft agl that was excessively over target, while the threshold speed was recorded at 144 kt. Touchdown was 347 m beyond the touchdown zone at 146 kt, with a heavy touchdown rate of minus 780 fpm and a lateral deviation of 12.3 m from the centreline. Local weather reported 30 °C, wind 8 kt from 248°, no cross-wind and an 8 kt head-wind. The total landing distance was 998 m (25 % of the runway).
Runway rollout alignment was noted as slightly off, with a centreline deviation of 11.7 m.
Taxi-in to the parking area required 10 minutes and covered 2 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,004 nm, lasted 165 minutes, and consumed 19,142 kg of fuel.
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