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Fly a steeper descent on final so you cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 61 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 61 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, well above the normal profile. The touchdown point was also long at 727 m against a 457 m target, a pattern often seen after high threshold crossings.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 144 kt, on the 144 kt target, and lifted off at 164 kt 4.4 s later, the nose coming up at 1.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 181 kt, 6 kt under its 187 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 876 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 961 m of runway left; gear up at 219 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,550 fpm on average to 876 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 2,310 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 1.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.6 m right, in 5 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 42 % 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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 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 30 ft above 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 45× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 8 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +3 kt on the approach speed of 131 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 aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.6° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 727 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 290° at 4 kt · 3 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 119 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 22 s, an average deceleration of 0.24 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 1,676 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 60 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 26 ft. Touched down 727 m in, 422 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 1,676 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 330 fpm at the flare to 170 fpm at 18 ft, then back up to 280 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.6° 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 1,676 m of the 3,889 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.6 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1.3 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.
Touched down 727 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-200ER taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at KSAN San Diego International Airport in 9 minutes, covering 4 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 27, the aircraft accelerated for a takeoff distance of 974 m, representing 42 % of the runway, and lifted off at 164 kt. Local weather at the time was Temperature 27 °C, Wind 9 kt from 237 °, with a cross-wind component of 7 kt and a head-wind component of 6 kt.
The first en-route climb began 1 mile west of KSAN, climbing from 972 ft asl to 34 997 ft asl - an increase of 34 025 ft - over 23 minutes while covering 165 nm.
The next climb segment started 16 miles south of UT74 Fry Canyon Field, rising from 34 997 ft asl to 36 993 ft asl, a gain of 1 996 ft in 3 minutes and traversing 30 nm.
A further climb commenced 63 miles west of CSF3 Poste Montagnais (Mile 134) Airport, ascending from 36 986 ft asl to 38 996 ft asl, an increase of 2 009 ft during 3 minutes and covering 30 nm.
The first cruise segment began 7 miles north-west of 72CL Iron Mountain Pumping Plant Airport, lasting 34 minutes and covering 307 nm at level flight.
The second cruise phase started 11 miles west of Blanding, Utah, and continued for 210 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 1 977 nm.
The third cruise segment originated 32 miles west of CSF3 Poste Montagnais (Mile 134) Airport, lasting 253 minutes and encompassing 2 290 nm.
Descent commenced overhead Blacon, Cheshire, England, with the aircraft descending from 38 939 ft asl to 1 409 ft asl - a loss of 37 530 ft - in 30 minutes while covering 158 nm.
The final approach to runway 27R at EGLL London Heathrow Airport was flown from the east, heading 270.0 ° at 4 nm and 1 319 ft agl, followed by a descent from 1 363 ft agl to 92 ft agl in 111 seconds, during which the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 27R, which is 3 889 m long, the aircraft achieved a threshold speed of 132 kt; the threshold height at 61 ft agl was above target. Touchdown occurred 311 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 123 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 150 fpm and a runway touchdown position offset 4.1 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was Temperature 12 °C, Wind 4 kt from 290 °, with a cross-wind of 1 kt and a head-wind of 3 kt. Total landing distance was 1 596 m, representing 41 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 4 972 nm, required 570 minutes of flight time, and consumed 63 556 kg of fuel.
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