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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 204 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 181 kt against a target of 204 kt, running 23 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 204 kt.
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 14 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 171 kt, on the 172 kt target, and lifted off at 178 kt 2.5 s later, the nose coming up at 3.0° a second. Climb 3 averaged 181 kt, 23 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 949 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,275 m of runway left; gear up at 524 ft, inside the 698 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,880 fpm on average to 949 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 3,986 m runway.
Rolled from 146 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 5.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.3 m right, in 6 kn of crosswind from the right. 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 3.3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 140 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: 3.3° here, which is about 350 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 2 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 +3 kt and +8 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 wandered off the target profile. The flare began at 3 ft agl above the runway, lower than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 476 m past the threshold. Begin raising the nose earlier - a late flare leaves no time to arrest the sink.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 054° at 2 kt · 1 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 145 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 32 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 1,639 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 42 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 3 ft. Touched down 476 m in, 171 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 1,639 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 stayed between 270 fpm and 280 fpm from the flare to the runway. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,639 m of the 2,588 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.5 m right of the centreline and drifted to 14 m right on the rollout, back to 2.1 m right by the end.
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 476 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-300ER taxied from the parking area to runway 25C at EDDF Frankfurt Airport in 17 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 25C with a take-off distance of 2,418 m, which was 61 % of the runway length. Rotation occurred at 171 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 13 °C, wind 1 kt from 264°, with 0 kt crosswind and 1 kt headwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 28 seconds, averaging 1,785 fpm and reaching 188 kt at the top of the segment. The climb continued from 1,378 ft asl to 32,001 ft asl in 17 minutes, covering 110 nm and beginning 2 miles south of Kelsterbach.
Level flight was maintained between 32,000 ft asl and 36,000 ft asl for 588 minutes, covering 4,440 nm, starting overhead Bedburg.
Descent began at 35,474 ft asl and proceeded to 1,696 ft asl in 22 minutes, covering 111 nm, starting 6 miles east of KLEO Leavenworth Airport.
Final approach to runway 34L at KSEA Seattle-Tacoma International Airport descended from 1,324 ft agl to 49 ft agl in 102 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 landing gear down at 1,937 ft agl with 169 kt, and final flap position 6 at 2,086 ft agl with 191 kt.
Landing was on runway 34L, runway length 2,590 m, with a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 147 kt. The flare was described as great, though it started late. Touchdown occurred 114 m beyond the touchdown zone at 146 kt, a little fast, with a perfect touchdown rate of minus 30 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 9.7 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,543 m, 60 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was misaligned by 16.1 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was temperature 16 °C, wind 4 kt from 073°, with 3 kt crosswind and 1 kt headwind.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 4 minutes, covering 2 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 4,672 nm in 660 minutes and used 85,420 kg of fuel.
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