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Keep the wings level on final
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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 168 kt with 8.0° 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 844 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 6,787 ft of runway left.
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 9,313 ft runway.
Rolled from 390 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 8 ft at the widest, and lifted off 8 ft right, in 6 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 17 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 0.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 90 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.
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 860 ft left of the centreline at 0.7 nm.
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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Rollout
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 10 ft, 40 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 637 ft in, 363 ft short of 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 5,000 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 280 fpm at 9 ft to 170 fpm at 7 ft, then back up to 280 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 5,000 ft of the 9,313 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 23 ft right on the rollout, back to 9 ft right by the end. 5 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 146 kt. Touched down with 2° of it still on, wings level.
Wind 270° at 6 kt · 0 kt tail · 5 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
The 637 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 145 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 20 s, an average deceleration of 0.30 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.
The rest of the report
The F-22 Raptor took off from runway 19R at KADW Joint Base Andrews, departing the ground with a takeoff distance of 1,600 feet, which is 17% of the runway length. The aircraft lifted off at a speed of 168 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were a temperature of 39°F and a wind speed of 8 knots from a direction of 259°, resulting in a crosswind of 8 knots and a headwind of 1 knot.
As the F-22 climbed away from the airfield, it began its enroute climb, starting overhead Andrews AFB in Maryland. The aircraft climbed from an altitude of 1,321 feet above sea level to 1,576 feet, an increase of 255 feet, in less than 1 minute and covering a distance of 1 nautical mile. This initial climb was followed by a descent from 1,585 feet to 959 feet, a decrease of 626 feet, in 2 minutes and covering 8 nautical miles, which started overhead Camp Springs, Maryland.
The F-22 then began another enroute climb, this time starting 1 mile south east of Rosslyn, Virginia. The aircraft climbed from 1,046 feet to 3,716 feet, an increase of 2,670 feet, in 4 minutes and covering 18 nautical miles. Following this climb, the F-22 entered a level cruise, lasting 2 minutes and covering 9 nautical miles, which started 1 mile north east of Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland.
The F-22 then began another enroute climb, starting 4 miles north west of Columbia, Maryland. The aircraft climbed from 3,782 feet to 1,182 feet, an increase of 2,600 feet, in 6 minutes and covering 28 nautical miles. After this climb, the F-22 began its final approach to runway 19R at KADW Joint Base Andrews, heading 223.0° at 1 nautical mile and 785 feet above ground level.
The F-22 landed on runway 19R, which is 9,313 feet long, with a threshold speed of 146 knots and a touchdown speed of 146 knots. The touchdown distance was 643 feet, and the touchdown rate was -285 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 39°F and a wind speed of 6 knots from a direction of 269°, resulting in a crosswind of 6 knots and a headwind of 0 knots.
The total landing distance was 3,356 feet, which is 36% of the runway length. However, the runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 26 feet from the centreline. The total flight distance was 66 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 15 minutes. The F-22 used a total of 18,133 pounds of fuel during the flight.
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