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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
Keep the back pressure coming once the flare is established, holding the nose up through to touchdown instead of easing it.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink but 397 fpm of it came back before touchdown, and in flights like this one that returning sink usually carries through to a firm or hard touchdown at 426 fpm.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: the sink held near zero all the way through touchdown, not allowed to build back up.
Make sure that you retract the landing gear once you have a positive rate of climb and there is no usable runway left to land back on.
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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, 3 kt above the 148 kt target, and lifted off at 167 kt 4.5 s later, the nose coming up at 1.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 184 kt target, at 181 kt on average.
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 889 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,984 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,480 fpm on average to 889 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 4,001 m runway.
Rolled from 117 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 6.9 m at the widest, and lifted off 6.1 m left. Airborne 40 % 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 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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 27 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 35 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 +10 kt on the approach speed of 140 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 tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 612 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 030° at 7 kt · 7 kt head · 2 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 134 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 44 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 47 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 25 ft. Touched down 612 m in, 307 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 1,524 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 20 fpm at 12 ft, then back up to 430 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.2° 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 1,524 m of the 3,657 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.3 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2.7 m of it down 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.
Touched down 612 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 426 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Airbus A330-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 06L at RJBB Kansai International Airport in 14 minutes, covering 4 nm on the ground.
During the departure roll on runway 06L, the aircraft used 1,634 m of runway, representing 41 % of the available length, and lifted off at 168 kt. Ambient temperature was 30 °C with a wind of 2 kt from 030°, a cross-wind component of 1 kt and a head-wind component of 2 kt.
The initial climb began overhead RJBB, climbing from 660 ft asl to 35,577 ft asl - an altitude gain of 34,917 ft - in 21 minutes while traversing 131 nm.
A level cruise segment started 12 mi south-east of Takehara, lasting 10 minutes and covering 71 nm.
A subsequent climb commenced 15 mi south of Hofu, raising the aircraft from 36,291 ft asl to 37,688 ft asl, an increase of 1,397 ft, in 2 minutes over a distance of 11 nm.
The next cruise phase originated 11 mi north of Bungo-Takada-shi, persisting for 50 minutes and encompassing 361 nm.
A further climb began at latitude 29.8201471, longitude 126.30349, lifting the airplane from 38,508 ft asl to 39,986 ft asl - a gain of 1,479 ft - in 3 minutes while covering 24 nm.
The following cruise segment started at latitude 29.4633367, longitude 126.0409568, lasting 38 minutes and spanning 297 nm.
Descent commenced 49 mi north-east of Jiufen, dropping from 39,830 ft asl to 4,010 ft asl, a loss of 35,820 ft, in 15 minutes across 93 nm.
A short cruise then occurred 8 mi north of RCPO Hsinchu Air Base, lasting 3 minutes and covering 11 nm.
The next descent began 9 mi north-east of Hsinchu, descending from 3,860 ft asl to 1,377 ft asl - a reduction of 2,483 ft - in 3 minutes over 8 nm.
Final approach to runway 05L at RCTP Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport reduced altitude from 1,339 ft agl to 89 ft agl in 101 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 05L, which is 3,657 m long, was achieved with a threshold speed of 145 kt. Touchdown occurred 196 m beyond the touchdown zone at 138 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 256 fpm and very good alignment. Local weather reported a temperature of 29 °C, wind 7 kt from 030°, cross-wind 2 kt and head-wind 7 kt. The total landing roll measured 1,343 m, representing 37 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was perfect, and the aircraft came to a stop without incident.
In total, the flight covered 1,018 nm, lasted 162 minutes, and consumed 13,751 kg of fuel.
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