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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 33 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Raise the nose more slowly in the flare and stop as soon as the sink is checked; if it balloons, hold the attitude.
What happened: The flare ballooned, with 362 fpm of sink returning after the arrest; a balloon like this usually carries through to a firm touchdown, as it did here at 373 fpm.
Watch for: The runway ahead: the aircraft still sinking gently towards it through the flare, never rising.
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 5,340 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,340 ft of the 6,981 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3,391 ft 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 13 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-300, then departed from runway 27R at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The takeoff distance was 5,966 feet, which was 50% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 168 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 80°F and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 250°. The crosswind component was 1 knot, while the headwind component was 2 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile southwest of College Park, Georgia. The climb took 17 minutes and covered a distance of 95 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 2,072 feet above sea level to 36,700 feet above sea level, an increase of 34,628 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 2 miles west of Empire, Georgia. This phase lasted for 153 minutes and covered a distance of 1,181 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, starting 56 miles northwest of ZC05 San Juan Static Carrier - CVN76, Dorado Municipio, Puerto Rico. The descent took 24 minutes and covered a distance of 116 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 37,170 feet above sea level to 1,318 feet above sea level, a decrease of 35,853 feet.
The final approach to runway 10 at Cyril E. King Airport was made from the west, with a heading of 87.0° at an altitude of 1,290 feet above ground level and a distance of 4 nautical miles from the runway threshold. The landing was made on runway 10, which had a length of 6,981 feet. The threshold height at 69 feet above ground level was above the target, but the threshold speed was good at 145 knots. However, the touchdown point was very long, using more than 50% of the available runway, and the touchdown speed was a little fast at 146 knots. The touchdown rate was hard at -443 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 27 feet from the centreline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 90°F and a wind speed of 10 knots from a direction of 99°. The crosswind component was 2 knots, while the headwind component was 10 knots. The total landing distance was 5,084 feet, which was 73% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 31 feet from the centreline.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 8 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 1,402 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 215 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 59,388 pounds of fuel during the flight.
The Boeing 777-300 aircraft successfully landed at TIST Cyril E. King Airport, but the landing was not without its challenges. The aircraft was approaching the runway from the west, heading 87.0° at a distance of 4 nautical miles and an altitude of 1,290 feet above ground level (agl). The pilot successfully landed the aircraft on runway 10, which has a length of 6,981 feet.
However, there were some issues with the landing. The threshold height at 69 feet agl was above the target, indicating that the aircraft was slightly higher than desired when it reached the runway threshold. On the other hand, the threshold speed was good at 145 knots, which is a desirable speed for landing. The touchdown point was very long, using more than 50% of the available runway, which may indicate that the pilot was trying to stretch out the landing or was not able to slow down the aircraft as quickly as desired.
The touchdown speed of 146 knots was a little fast, which may have contributed to the hard touchdown rate of -443 feet per minute (fpm). A hard touchdown rate can be uncomfortable for passengers and may also cause damage to the aircraft. Additionally, the runway touchdown position was misaligned by 27 feet from the centreline, which may have been due to a combination of factors including wind and pilot error.
The local weather conditions at the time of the landing were hot and windy, with a temperature of 90°F and a wind speed of 10 knots at 99°. The crosswind was minimal at 2 knots, but the headwind was 10 knots, which may have affected the aircraft's approach and landing. The total landing distance was 5,084 feet, which is 73% of the available runway length.
Finally, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 31 feet from the centreline, which may have been due to the same factors that caused the initial touchdown position to be off-centre. Overall, while the landing was successful, there were some areas for improvement, and the pilot may need to work on slowing down the aircraft more quickly and aligning the touchdown position more accurately.
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