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Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 38 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 47 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and rollout.
A crosswind landing is a geometry problem. The air mass you're flying in is moving sideways across the runway, and you need your ground track down the centreline with your wheels aligned to it at the moment of contact. There are two techniques that will help, the crab and the sideslip.
Read more in Crosswind Landings in the SimStart to finish · 17 stages, 15 in the score
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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, 6 kt above the 142 kt target, and lifted off at 154 kt 2.0 s later, the nose coming up at 5.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 165 kt, 14 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 951 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 721 m of runway left; gear up at 64 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,350 fpm on average to 951 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 2,495 m runway.
Rolled from 104 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 4.8 m right, in 8 kn of crosswind from the right. Airborne 59 % 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 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then not again: right of the centreline from 0.5 nm and banked from 0.4 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 120 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 12× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.5 nm, then 30 m right of it from 0.5 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 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 +2 kt and +12 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
The flare wandered off the target profile. The flare began at 97 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 758 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
11 kt across from the right, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 133 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, 4° of bank.
Wind 340° at 12 kt · 5 kt head · 11 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 126 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 32 s, an average deceleration of 0.16 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 2,207 m of the approach.
Began the flare high, at 97 ft, 73 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 77 ft, 27 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 758 m in, 453 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 2,207 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 880 fpm at the flare to 360 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 4.5° 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 2,207 m of the 2,620 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.7 m right of the centreline and drifted to 22 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.
Touched down 758 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 361 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to the runway for 8 minutes, covering 2 nm, and departed from runway 29 at EPWR Copernicus Wrocław Airport. Take-off used 1,488 m of runway (60 % of runway). Rotation occurred at 148 kt. Local weather was 9 °C with wind 10 kt from 029°, a 10 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 21 seconds, averaging 2,198 fpm and reaching 164 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 1,425 ft asl to 37,486 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 132 nm, beginning 1 mile east of Galow. Cruise level at 38,000 ft asl was held for 87 minutes, covering 599 nm, starting 1 mile south-east of Nunchritz.
Descent from 37,393 ft asl to 8,001 ft asl took 23 minutes over 120 nm, beginning overhead Atherton. Level flight at 8,000 ft asl continued for 7 minutes, covering 29 nm, starting 13 miles east of Loughshinny. A further descent from 7,824 ft asl to 1,637 ft asl lasted 6 minutes, covering 17 nm, starting 12 miles east of Dalkey.
Final approach to runway 28L at EIDW Dublin Airport descended from 1,462 ft agl to 126 ft agl in 100 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. The landing gear was lowered at 2,512 ft agl with a speed of 165 kt; final flap position 7 was selected at 1,643 ft agl with a speed of 155 kt.
Landing on runway 28L (runway length 2,620 m) had a threshold height of 78 ft agl, noted as well above target, and a threshold speed of 141 kt, described as good. The flare was good, starting early. Touchdown occurred 332 m beyond the touchdown zone at 133 kt, with a firm rate of minus 362 fpm. Touchdown position was 4.7 m off the centreline. Local weather was 10 °C with wind 9 kt from 340°, an 8 kt crosswind and a 4 kt headwind. No bounce was observed. Total landing distance was 2,114 m (81 % of runway). Runway rollout alignment was excessively misaligned by 47.1 m from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area for 10 minutes, covering 2 nm. The total flight covered 908 nm in 159 minutes and used 5,586 kg of fuel.
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