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Hold the aim point and wait for the speed to bleed before raising the nose, starting the flare within the normal band instead of 51 ft.
What happened: The flare began at 51 ft, 5.8 ft earlier than the normal band.
Watch for: Radio altimeter: start the flare within the normal flare band
See Arrival Landing
Trim is the hidden variable. In trim, the flare is a small refinement to an aircraft already in equilibrium, a couple of millimetres of stick. Out of trim, you're holding a constant force all the way down final, and the flare becomes a large, badly judged movement stacked on top of a load you're already carrying. A striking proportion of "I can't judge the flare" complaints are trim complaints wearing a disguise. If you're holding pressure at 500 feet, fix that before you practise anything else.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 150 kt, on the 148 kt target, and lifted off at 166 kt 6.7 s later, the nose coming up at 0.9° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 183 kt target, at 184 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 873 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,724 ft of runway left; gear up at 53 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,730 fpm on average to 873 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 13,436 ft runway.
Rolled from 267 ft in, drifted left of the centreline, 8 ft at the widest, and lifted off 5 ft left. Airborne 57 % 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 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 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 180 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, 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. 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 35× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 30 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.
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 +3 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 140 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.3 points, for starting the flare at 51 ft agl, above the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 209° at 2 kt · 1 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 152 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 30 s, an average deceleration of 0.21 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 5,657 ft of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 51 ft, 809 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 22 ft, 28 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 1,352 ft in, 352 ft past the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,657 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 650 fpm at the flare to 160 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.2° 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 5,657 ft of the 7,980 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 8 ft right of the centreline, and stayed within 8 ft of it down 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 1,352 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxied from the parking area to runway 18R at KDFW Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in 7 minutes, covering 3 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 18R with a takeoff distance of 7,653 ft (57 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 150 kt. Local weather at departure was temperature 74 °F, wind 0 kt from 359°, crosswind 0 kt, headwind 0 kt.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 28 seconds, averaging 1,489 fpm and reaching 181 kt at the top. The climb continued from 1,572 ft asl to 32,014 ft asl in 15 minutes, covering 90 nm, beginning 1 mile south-west of KDFW.
The aircraft level-flew at 32,000 ft asl for 70 minutes, covering 526 nm, starting 3 miles west of 1F1 Lake Murray State Park Airport Overbrook.
Descent from 31,997 ft asl to 8,043 ft asl took 19 minutes, covering 98 nm, beginning 2 miles north of 7CO0 Parkland Airport Erie.
Final approach to runway 25 at KEGE Eagle County Regional Airport descended from 1,641 ft agl to 164 ft agl in 85 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. Configuration was landing gear down at 1,249 ft agl, 194 kt; final flap position 7 at 1,838 ft agl, 190 kt.
Landing on runway 25 (runway length 7,980 ft) had a good threshold height. Threshold speed was 143 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 1,352 ft down the runway at 136 kt, with a touchdown rate of minus 162 fpm and very good runway-touchdown alignment. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 5,384 ft (67 % of runway) and rollout alignment was perfect. Local weather at KEGE was temperature 68 °F, wind 2 kt from 209°, crosswind 1 kt, headwind 1 kt.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
The flight covered a total of 724 nm in 115 minutes and used 10,044 lb of fuel.
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