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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive rate of climb is confirmed after liftoff.
What happened: The landing gear was never raised during the initial climb and was still down when the climb ended.
Watch for: Landing gear lever: UP promptly after confirming a positive rate of climb.
Arrival
Use small rudder inputs against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout.
What happened: During the rollout the aircraft drifted 34 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 18 stages, 16 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 148 kt, 4 kt above the 144 kt target, and lifted off at 159 kt 3.6 s later, the nose coming up at 2.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 164 kt, 15 kt under its 179 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 985 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 761 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,610 fpm on average to 985 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,939 m runway.
Rolled from 228 m in, drifted 2.5 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 62 % 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 3.7 nm, about 1,380 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the sink rate.
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 250 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 21× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 18 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 +2 kt and +16 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 aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.6° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 461 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
8 kt across from the left, which takes about 3° of crab to hold the centreline at 142 kt. Touched down with 3° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 310° at 9 kt · 2 kt tail · 8 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 2,103 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 59 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 12 ft. Touched down 461 m in, 156 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 2,103 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 620 fpm at the flare to 330 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.1° 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 2,103 m of the 2,943 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 22 m right on 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.
The 461 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 331 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 19L at ENGM Oslo Airport, Gardermoen for 10 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 19L. The aircraft used 1,811 m of runway (62 % of runway) and rotated at 148 kt. Local weather was 8 °C with wind 2 kt from 270°, giving a 2 kt crosswind and no headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 20 seconds, averaging 2,237 fpm and reaching 163 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 1,702 ft asl to 32,987 ft asl in 17 minutes, covering 109 nm. The climb began 2 nm north-west of Jessheim.
Level cruise was flown at 33,000 ft asl for 25 minutes, covering 192 nm, beginning 32 nm west of Smoegen.
Descent started from 32,123 ft asl and proceeded to 1,511 ft asl in 32 minutes, covering 158 nm. The descent began 3 nm south-east of Assens and included brief level-offs at 4,000 ft asl and 3,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 05 at EDDH Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport began from 1,587 ft agl and descended to 69 ft agl in 106 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, on glideslope, on centreline, on speed, wings level. Configuration on final was flap position 2 at 3,110 ft agl with an airspeed of 206 kt.
Landing on runway 05 was completed with a threshold height of 59 ft agl, slightly above target, and a threshold speed of 147 kt, judged good. The flare was described as very good, with little round-out. Touchdown occurred 461 m down the runway at 142 kt, a good speed, with a firm touchdown rate of minus 332 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 1,989 m (68 % of runway). Runway rollout alignment was significantly misaligned by 34.3 m from the centreline.
Local weather at Hamburg was 11 °C with wind 8 kt from 310°, giving an 8 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
The flight covered a total of 466 nm, lasted 84 minutes and used 3,453 kg of fuel.
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