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Fixing the bounce
Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 156 kt with 8.4° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 179 kt target, at 177 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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 857 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,777 ft of runway left; gear up at 58 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,700 fpm on average to 857 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 7,952 ft runway.
Rolled from 213 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 7 ft at the widest, and lifted off 6 ft left. Airborne 52 % 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 threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
The final from 4 nm.
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 70 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, 1,000 ft 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 40 ft 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.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 30 at LFOB Paris-Beauvais Airport in 13 minutes, covering a distance of 2 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 30, achieving a takeoff distance of 4,152 ft (52 % of the runway) and lifting off at 156 kt; ambient conditions were 76 °F with a wind of 8 kt from 280°, including a 3 kt cross-wind component and an 8 kt head-wind.
Climb began over Tille (Hauts-de-France, France), with the airplane ascending from 1,270 ft asl to 32,995 ft asl-a gain of 31,724 ft-over 21 minutes while traversing 142 nm.
Cruise was established one mile southeast of Laval (Pays de la Loire, France) and persisted for 75 minutes, during which the flight covered 592 nm at level altitude.
Descent was initiated seven miles west of Saceruela (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), descending from 33,001 ft asl to 1,384 ft asl, a loss of 31,617 ft in 20 minutes and spanning 106 nm.
The final approach to runway 27 at LEZL Sevilla Airport reduced altitude from 1,291 ft agl to 47 ft agl in 110 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 27, which is 11,026 ft long, was executed with a threshold speed of 138 kt; touchdown occurred 238 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 127 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 182 fpm and very good alignment, while local weather reported 72 °F and a wind of 8 kt from 280° (2 kt cross-wind, 8 kt head-wind).
The rollout distance measured 4,885 ft, representing 44 % of the runway, and alignment during rollout was noted as very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 849 nm, lasted 131 minutes, and consumed 13,063 lb of fuel.
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