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Arrival
Begin raising the nose sooner, starting the flare by 11 ft to give the sink time to be arrested before touchdown.
What happened: The flare began late at 6.5 ft, 4.8 ft below the normal band; a late flare like this usually leaves too little time to arrest the sink, and a bounce often follows at touchdown.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: begin the flare by 11 ft
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 151 kt, 4 kt above the 147 kt target, and lifted off at 162 kt 3.3 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 averaged 173 kt, 6 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 1,015 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 619 m of runway left; gear up at 59 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,370 fpm on average to 1,015 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 2,395 m runway.
Rolled from 64 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 4.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.9 m left, in 5 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 60 % 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 40 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 39× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 9 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 142 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 held the target profile well. The flare began at 6 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 517 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 144 kt. Touched down with the nose 2° into wind, wings level.
Wind 049° at 5 kt · 4 kt head · 3 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 1,997 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 62 ft, 12 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 6 ft. Touched down 517 m in, 213 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 1,997 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 240 fpm at the flare to 190 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 1,997 m of the 2,956 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 3.3 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.
Touched down 517 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.21 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 03 at GCRR César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport in 9 minutes, covering 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 03, the Boeing 737-800 used 1,456 m of runway, representing 61 % of the available length, and lifted off at 163 kt; ambient temperature was 27 °C with a wind of 20 kt from 090°, a 6 kt cross-wind component and a 19 kt head-wind component.
Climb commenced 1 mile north-east of GCRR, with the aircraft ascending from 1,090 ft asl to 35,483 ft asl, a gain of 34,393 ft achieved in 21 minutes while covering 136 nm.
Cruise began 98 miles north-west of Sidi Ifni and continued for 177 minutes, during which 1,262 nm were flown at level altitude.
Descent was initiated 26 miles north of L’Ile-Rousse, descending from 35,993 ft asl to 2,251 ft asl, a loss of 33,742 ft over 29 minutes and a distance of 153 nm.
The final approach to runway 36 at LIMF Turin Airport involved a descent from 1,323 ft agl to 69 ft agl in 92 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 36 was performed with a runway length of 2,956 m; the threshold height at 62 ft agl was above target, while the threshold speed was 147 kt. Touchdown occurred 108 m beyond the touchdown zone at 144 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 171 fpm and a lateral deviation of 3.3 m from the centreline. Local conditions were 18 °C, wind 5 kt from 090°, a 1 kt cross-wind and a 5 kt head-wind. The total landing distance recorded was 1,924 m, representing 65 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as very good.
Taxiing from the runway to the parking area required 7 minutes and covered 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,561nm, lasted 243 minutes and consumed 9,240 kg of fuel.
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