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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 6.5 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
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Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 502 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 461 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 2,740 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,740 m of the 3,077 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,952 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 3 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, then departed from runway 33L at Logan International Airport (KBOS) in Boston, Massachusetts. The takeoff distance was 1,550 meters, which was 55% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 170 knots.
As the aircraft climbed to its cruising altitude, it encountered local weather conditions of a temperature of 16°C and a wind speed of 5 knots at 229°. The crosswind was 5 knots, while the headwind was 0 knots. The enroute climb started overhead Chelsea, Massachusetts, and the aircraft ascended from 1,090 feet above sea level to 34,903 feet above sea level, an increase of 33,813 feet in 26 minutes, covering a distance of 182 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began 48 miles southwest of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, and lasted for 246 minutes, covering a distance of 2,199 nautical miles. The aircraft then underwent several enroute climbs and level cruises, each with varying altitudes and distances covered. The final enroute climb started at a latitude of 34.1686133 and a longitude of 16.5702593, and the aircraft ascended from 37,131 feet above sea level to 39,103 feet above sea level, an increase of 1,972 feet in 3 minutes, covering a distance of 30 nautical miles.
As the aircraft began its descent, it started 15 miles south of Debre Markos Airport in Ethiopia. The descent from 39,335 feet above sea level to 8,809 feet above sea level, a decrease of 30,527 feet in 17 minutes, covered a distance of 92 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 07R at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (HAAB) was from the west, heading 75.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,192 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 07R was successful, with a touchdown point that was very long, using more than 50% of the available runway. The touchdown speed was 136 knots, which was a little fast, and the touchdown rate was hard at -448 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 7.6 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 16°C and a wind speed of 3 knots at 100°.
The total landing distance was 2,665 meters, which was 87% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 5,922 nautical miles, taking 722 minutes, and the aircraft used 85,858 kilograms of fuel.
The Boeing 777-200ER aircraft successfully landed at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, but the landing was not without some notable issues. The aircraft was approaching runway 07R from the west, heading 75.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,192 feet above ground level. The final approach score was 81.3%, indicating a decent but not exceptional landing performance.
Upon landing, the aircraft touched down on the runway, but the touchdown point was quite far down the runway, using more than 50% of the available length. This suggests that the aircraft may have been slightly too long or the pilots may have been trying to stretch out the landing to use up more of the runway. The touchdown speed of 136 knots was also a bit higher than the recommended threshold speed of 132 knots, which may have contributed to the hard touchdown rate of -448 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was also slightly misaligned by 7.6 meters from the centerline, which may have been due to a slight deviation in the aircraft's alignment during the final approach. However, the runway rollout alignment was very good, indicating that the pilots were able to maintain control of the aircraft and align it with the runway centerline during the rollout phase.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were relatively calm, with a temperature of 16°C and a wind speed of 3 knots from 100°. The crosswind component was minimal at 1 knot, and the headwind component was 2 knots, which may have helped to reduce the landing distance.
Overall, while the landing was not perfect, the pilots were able to bring the aircraft safely to the ground, and the aircraft was able to stop within the available runway length. However, there are some areas for improvement, such as reducing the touchdown speed and improving the alignment during the final approach.
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