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Avoid steep turns at low altitude
Below a thousand feet the aeroplane is slow, heavy and close to the ground. A steep turn loses lift, raises the stall speed and flattens the climb just when the gradient matters most. A normal turn on course is a rate one — fifteen degrees or so, twenty-five at the outside, this penalty is to acknowledge when a turn has stopped being a turn and become a manoeuvre.
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One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,847 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 371 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight in the Boeing 747-8 started with a 6-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway at LOWW Schwechat. The departure roll from runway 16 covered a distance of 2,924 ft, with liftoff speed recorded at 147 kn. The local weather at the time showed a temperature of 61 °F with a 7 kn wind coming from 140 °, resulting in a crosswind of 3 kn and a headwind of 6 kn.
The enroute climb began over Klein-Neusiedl (Niederoesterreich, Austria), with an ascent from 1,645 ft asl to 35,612 ft asl, covering 67 nm in 13 minutes. The climb was followed by a level cruise starting over Waidhofen an der Thaya (Niederoesterreich, Austria) lasting 48 minutes and covering 379 nm.
The enroute descent commenced 1 mile northeast of Enschede (Provincie Overijssel, The Netherlands), descending from 35,210 ft asl to 1,814 ft asl over 81 nm in 18 minutes. The landing on runway 18C at EHAM Schiphol had a runway length of 9,341 ft, with the aircraft touching down 1,221 ft from the threshold at a speed of 132 kn and a VSI of -296 ft/m. The total landing distance covered was 4,097 ft, which accounted for 44% of the runway.
Following the landing, the aircraft taxied back to the parking area from the runway in 4 minutes, covering less than 1 nm. The total flight distance for this journey was recorded at 537 nm, with a total flight time of 103 minutes and fuel consumption of 27,203 lbs. The local weather during landing showed a temperature of 60 °F with a 1 kn wind coming from 149 °, resulting in minimal crosswind and headwind components.
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