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Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 136 kt with 8.9° of pitch.
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 927 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,604 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,170 fpm on average to 927 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 3,570 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted 3.5 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 23 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: gear still up, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 28 kt above the approach speed of 113 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 17 kt above the approach speed of 113 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.9 nm, about 340 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. 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 110 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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 713 m right of the centreline, then inside the band from 2.3 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 28 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 17 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 0.9 nm (up to +78 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
Good landing flare
4 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 104 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, 3° of bank.
Wind 306° at 7 kt · 6 kt head · 4 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.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 33 ft, 17 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 227 m in, 77 m short of 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 500 fpm at 31 ft to 260 fpm at 25 ft, then back up to 400 fpm at touchdown. 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 3,602 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 12 m left of the centreline and drifted to 16 m right on 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.
The 227 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.49 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 24 minutes and covered a distance of 5 nautical miles. The aircraft, an RJ85, then departed from runway 04 at Geneva Cointrin International Airport (LSGG). The takeoff distance was 791 meters, which accounted for 22% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 136 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 2 knots from a direction of 183 degrees. This resulted in a negligible crosswind and tailwind component. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, which started overhead Le Grand-Saconnex in Geneva, Switzerland. The climb took 19 minutes and covered a distance of 98 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 2,371 feet above sea level to 30,358 feet above sea level, an increase of 27,987 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started overhead Geuensee in the Kanton Luzern region of Switzerland. This phase lasted for 31 minutes and covered a distance of 293 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent, which started overhead Frohnleiten in the Steiermark region of Austria. The descent took 17 minutes and covered a distance of 71 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 30,282 feet above sea level to 1,445 feet above sea level, a decrease of 28,837 feet.
The final approach to runway 34 at Vienna International Airport (LOWW) was made from the south, with the aircraft heading 339.0 degrees at an altitude of 845 feet above ground level and a distance of 3 nautical miles from the runway. The landing was made on runway 34, which had a length of 3,602 meters. The threshold height was good, and the threshold speed was also satisfactory at 117 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 220 meters, and the touchdown speed was 104 knots, which was also satisfactory. However, the touchdown rate was hard at -417 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was misaligned by 11.7 meters from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment was also misaligned by 18.4 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 10 knots from a direction of 320 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind component of 4 knots and a headwind component of 9 knots. The total landing distance was 895 meters, which accounted for 25% of the runway.
The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 5 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 473 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 82 minutes. The aircraft used a total of 3,173 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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