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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 204 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 172 kt against a target of 204 kt, running 32 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 204 kt.
Arrival
Begin raising the nose earlier, as soon as you reach 11 ft, rather than waiting until closer to the runway.
What happened: The flare began at 8.7 ft, 2.6 ft later than the normal band, leaving little time to arrest the sink. A late flare like this usually carries through to a firmer-than-normal touchdown.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the normal flare band, calling the flare at 11 ft.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 166 kt, on the 166 kt target, and lifted off at 170 kt 1.9 s later, the nose coming up at 4.3° a second. Climb 3 averaged 172 kt, 32 kt under its 204 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 992 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,764 m of runway left; gear up at 591 ft, inside the 698 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,120 fpm on average to 992 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 4,258 m runway.
Rolled from 164 m in, drifted 8.4 m left of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 51 % 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 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 20 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. 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 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 11 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +4 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 143 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 flare began at 9 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 285 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 148 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 136° at 4 kt · 0 kt tail · 4 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.
Side view — the last 1,870 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 37 ft, 13 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 9 ft. Touched down 285 m in, close to 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 1,870 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 610 fpm at the flare to 310 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 1,870 m of the 3,171 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.9 m right of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.6 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. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 285 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.90 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-300ER taxied from the parking area to runway 35R at CYYC Calgary International Airport, a taxi of 19 minutes covering 3 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 35R with a take-off roll of 2,205 m, using 52 % of the runway. Rotation occurred at 166 kt. Local weather was temperature -3 °C, wind 5 kt from 010°, with a 1 kt crosswind and a 5 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 25 seconds, averaging 1,987 fpm and reaching 176 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 4,618 ft asl to 34,987 ft asl in 15 minutes, covering 97 nm, beginning the climb 2 nm north-east of CYYC.
Cruise was maintained at 35,000 ft asl for 153 minutes, covering 1,280 nm, starting 21 nm north-east of CYBP Brooks Regional Airport.
Descent began from 35,001 ft asl to 26,041 ft asl in 8 minutes, covering 64 nm, starting 10 nm north-east of 2MI7 Flugplatz Airport, with a brief level-off at 29,000 ft asl.
A level segment at 26,000 ft asl lasted 6 minutes and covered 36 nm, beginning 5 nm north-east of CYSA Stratford Municipal Airport.
The next descent from 25,995 ft asl to 1,882 ft asl took 23 minutes, covering 103 nm, starting 1 nm north-east of CDF5 Elora Airport, with a brief level-off at 2,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 23 at CYYZ Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport descended from 1,385 ft agl to 94 ft agl in 98 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration on final was flap position 1 at 7,696 ft agl, speed 264 kt.
Landing on runway 23 was made with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 148 kt. The flare was described as good, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 284 m down the runway at a speed of 148 kt, a little fast, and a firm rate of minus 307 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned by 3.2 m from the centreline. Local weather was temperature 12 °C, wind 3 kt from 102°, with a 2 kt crosswind and a 2 kt tailwind. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,790 m, 56 % of the 3,171 m runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to parking in 20 minutes, covering 3 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 1,594 nm in 239 minutes and used 27,711 kg of fuel.
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