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Arrival
Take the power back earlier on final, so the aircraft settles onto the path and the speed comes back to 81 kt together. Do not push down for the height: that only adds speed.
What happened: You crossed the threshold at 81 ft agl, 31 ft agl above the 50 ft agl target, and at 92 kt, 11 kt over the 81 kt threshold speed. High and fast together is energy the runway has to absorb, and this touchdown came 911 m beyond the aim point.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 81 kt on short final, then 50 ft agl over the threshold
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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Taxi out
The roll
The nose wandered in the climb
From 35 ft to the end of the climb the nose moved between 3.2° and 9.9°, and the speed between 97 kt and 147 kt.
Once clear of the runway the nose moved through a wide range, and the speed moved with it. Set the climb attitude, hold it and trim, and give the speed a few seconds to settle before correcting it with a degree or two of pitch. Chasing the airspeed with large pitch changes makes it wander more.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 3,090 m runway.
Rolled from 104 m in, never more than 1 m off the centreline. Airborne 20 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 970 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,233 m of runway left; gear up at 17 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,060 fpm on average to 970 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
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.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 24 kt above the approach speed of 81 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, about 300 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate.
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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 530 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° 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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.5 nm, then drifted 89 m right between 1.5 and 0.9 nm, then inside the band from 0.9 nm to the threshold.
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 41 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 1.8 nm, then fast to 1.5 nm (up to +27 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
The flare mostly held the target profile
The flare was pumped rather than held: pitch changed direction 4 times on the way down. Touchdown was 1,368 m past the threshold. One smooth continuous input - chasing the runway with the elevator makes the next correction bigger, not smaller.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,816 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 81 ft, 31 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 41 ft; ballooned 2 ft from 12 ft. Touched down 1,368 m in, 1,064 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 1,816 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 120 fpm before coming down at 100 fpm to touch. The nose came up 4.6° on the way down. Into the flare at 93 kt, 12 kt over the 81 kt approach speed, and 64 kt at touchdown.
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 1,816 m of the 3,090 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 5.3 m left on the rollout. Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 293° at 4 kt · 4 kt tail · 1 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 1,368 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 72 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 14 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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.
The rest of the report
The pilot taxied from the parking area to runway 10 at GMMX Menara Airport, a movement that lasted 18 minutes and covered 4 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 10. The aircraft used 640 m of runway, which is 21 % of the available length. Rotation occurred at 82 kt. Local weather at departure was 22 °C, wind 1 kt from 059°, giving a 1 kt headwind and a 1 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1 000 ft agl took 51 seconds, averaging 1 006 fpm and reaching 147 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 2 556 ft asl to 9 401 ft asl in 12 minutes, covering 34 nm; the climb began 1 mile south of Marrakesh and included a brief level-off at 4 900 ft asl.
Descent from 9 439 ft asl to 6 495 ft asl took 9 minutes over 28 nm, starting 11 miles north-east of Oukaimedene, with a brief level-off at 7 700 ft asl.
Level flight at 7 000 ft asl lasted 9 minutes and covered 27 nm, beginning 8 miles north-east of Oukaimedene.
A climb from 7 265 ft asl to 9 574 ft asl was completed in 3 minutes over 11 nm, starting 20 miles west of Oukaimedene.
Descent from 9 565 ft asl to 3 148 ft asl took 5 minutes and covered 20 nm, beginning 28 miles south-west of GMMX.
Level flight at 2 700 ft asl lasted 9 minutes, covering 24 nm, starting 10 miles south-west of GMMX.
A climb from 2 260 ft asl to 2 488 ft asl was made in 7 minutes over 13 nm, beginning 6 miles west of GMMX.
At 489 ft agl the aircraft executed a go-around on runway 10 at GMMX Menara Airport.
The subsequent final approach to runway 10 descended from 852 ft agl to 142 ft agl in 133 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1 000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; the speed check was not met at one gate.
Landing was on runway 10, whose length is 3 090 m. The threshold height at 81 ft agl was significantly above target and the threshold speed was well above target at 92 kt. The flare was described as very good, with the pitch being pumped up and down during the flare. Touchdown occurred 933 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 64 kt and a rate of -102 fpm; alignment was perfect and no bounce occurred. Local weather at landing was 22 °C, wind 3 kt from 288°, giving a 1 kt crosswind and a 3 kt tailwind.
Total landing distance was 1 713 m, 55 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
The pilot taxied from the runway to the parking area in 6 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 180 nm in 80 minutes and consumed 188 kg of fuel.
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