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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 15 m off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 147 kt, on the 145 kt target, and lifted off at 152 kt 2.3 s later, the nose coming up at 3.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 157 kt target, at 157 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 958 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,152 m of runway left; gear up at 349 ft, inside the 697 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,640 fpm on average to 958 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 2,914 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted right of the centreline, 15 m at the widest, and lifted off 16 m right. Airborne 50 % 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 six 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 30 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 52× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 5 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 −4 kt and +1 kt on the approach speed of 139 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 strayed well off the target profile. The aircraft was flown onto the runway - pitch changed 1.0° and the descent was barely arrested. Touchdown was 322 m past the threshold. Start the flare with progressive back pressure rather than one pull, and keep it coming.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 259° at 17 kt · 17 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 120 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 28 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 56 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 9 ft. Touched down 322 m in, close to 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 stayed between 450 fpm and 620 fpm from the flare to the runway. The nose came up 0.8° 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 2,713 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.6 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 4.2 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.
The 322 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.14 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
The B772 taxied from the parking area to the runway for 10 minutes, covering 2 nm, and departed from runway 22R at KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport. Take-off used 1,455 m of runway (50 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 147 kt. Local weather was 9 °C, wind 2 kt from 020°, crosswind 0 kt, tailwind 2 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 32 seconds, averaging 1,597 fpm and reaching 160 kt at the top. The aircraft then climbed from 1,050 ft asl to 33,711 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 117 nm, starting 1 mile east of Elizabeth. Level flight at 34,000 ft asl continued for 29 minutes, covering 207 nm, starting overhead Annville.
A subsequent climb from 33,998 ft asl to 35,995 ft asl lasted 3 minutes over 23 nm, beginning 1 mile south-west of New Athens. Level flight at 36,000 ft asl persisted for 186 minutes, covering 1,302 nm, starting 3 miles north of OA00 Taildragger Airport Cambridge. The aircraft then climbed from 35,991 ft asl to 37,984 ft asl in 2 minutes, covering 10 nm, starting 3 miles east of Sanostee. Level flight at 38,000 ft asl lasted 52 minutes, covering 347 nm, starting 7 miles west of Sanostee.
Descent from 37,993 ft asl to 1,408 ft asl took 28 minutes, covering 138 nm, beginning 13 miles south of 43CA Dick Taylor Airstrip Kelso, with brief level-offs at 12,000 ft asl and 2,200 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 24R at KLAX Los Angeles International Airport descended from 1,320 ft agl to 87 ft agl in 115 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 1,941 ft agl, 141 kt; final flap position 4 at 2,092 ft agl, 178 kt.
Landing on runway 24R (runway length 2,713 m) had a threshold height of 57 ft agl, slightly above target, and a threshold speed of 140 kt, judged good. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 436 m down the runway at 133 kt, a little fast, with a touchdown rate of minus 17 fpm, considered perfect. The touchdown point was 3.1 m off the centreline. Local weather was 22 °C, wind 8 kt from 258°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 8 kt. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,142 m (42 % of runway) and rollout alignment was perfect.
The aircraft taxied to the parking area for 13 minutes, covering 2 nm. The total flight covered 2,155 nm in 341 minutes and used 40,342 kg of fuel.
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