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Arrival
Level the wings with coordinated aileron on short final so bank stays near wings-level through touchdown.
What happened: Wings were not level through the landing phase, with bank angle at 1.6° on short final.
Watch for: Watch the bank angle indicator, holding it near wings-level through the landing and touchdown.
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 148 kt, 5 kt above the 143 kt target, and lifted off at 154 kt 2.4 s later, the nose coming up at 4.4° a second. Climb 3 averaged 169 kt, 10 kt under its 179 kt target.
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 913 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,408 m of runway left; gear up at 72 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,160 fpm on average to 913 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 4,334 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 4.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.5 m right. Airborne 37 % 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
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 3.5 nm, about 1,180 ft above the runway, to the threshold, before the 1,000 ft gate, so through both gates. The last to settle was the speed.
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 60 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 9× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 40 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.
Fast from 4 nm to 3.5 nm (up to +43 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
Touchdown
Perfect landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 4° left of the track, 5° of bank.
Wind 014° at 2 kt · 2 kt head · 0 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 145 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 37 s, an average deceleration of 0.17 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 1,660 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 12 ft. Touched down 411 m in, 106 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 1,660 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 490 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 1,660 m of the 2,395 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.6 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.2 m left by the end of 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 411 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 36L at LEMD Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, a movement that lasted 14 minutes and covered 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 36L, the takeoff run measured 1,613 m, representing 37 % of the runway length, and the aircraft lifted off at 154 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 20 °C, wind 6 kt from 342°, with a 2 kt cross-wind component and a 5 kt head-wind component.
Enroute climb commenced 2 miles west of Paracuellos de Jarama, climbing from 2,334 ft asl to 36,999 ft asl - an increase of 34,664 ft - achieved in 21 minutes while covering 136 nm.
The first level cruise began 5 miles north-east of Saceruela and persisted for 80 minutes, during which the aircraft travelled 624 nm.
Descent operations started at latitude 30.7229263, longitude -12.1852333, descending from 36,529 ft asl to 7,940 ft asl - a loss of 28,589 ft - over 22 minutes and a distance of 129 nm.
A brief cruise segment followed, initiating 12 miles south-east of Costa Teguise and lasting 3 minutes while covering 13 nm.
The subsequent descent began 22 miles south-east of Arrecife, dropping from 7,866 ft asl to 1,304 ft asl - a decrease of 6,563 ft - in 7 minutes and spanning 29 nm.
Final approach to runway 03 at GCRR César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport was conducted from the south-west on a heading of 27.0° at 4 nm and 1,255 ft agl, with a further descent from 1,298 ft agl to 18 ft agl completed in 89 seconds; the approach was recorded as having scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 03, which is 2,390 m long, was executed with a threshold speed of 145 kt. Touchdown occurred 406 m down the runway at 142 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 197 fpm and a lateral deviation of 8.6 m from the centreline. Local weather reported a temperature of 30 °C, wind 2 kt from 16°, with no cross-wind and a 2 kt head-wind. The total landing distance was 1,574 m, representing 66 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was noted as slightly off centreline by 8.3 m.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 944 nm, took 149 minutes, and consumed 5,538 kg of fuel.
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