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Departure
Raise the gear lever promptly once a positive climb is confirmed, before reaching the target retraction height.
What happened: Gear retraction was delayed, with the gear not coming up until 440 ft agl.
Watch for: Landing gear: up by the normal retraction gate
Arrival
Fly a slightly steeper approach path to cross the threshold at 50 ft agl instead of 59 ft agl.
What happened: The aircraft crossed the threshold at 59 ft agl against a 50 ft agl target, above the normal profile. This fault pattern is often followed by a long touchdown beyond the target point, and here the aircraft touched down at 733 m against a 457 m target.
Watch for: Radio altimeter against the 50 ft threshold crossing target on short final.
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.
Rotated at 144 kt, 17 kt below the 161 kt target, and lifted off at 154 kt 2.8 s later, the nose coming up at 2.7° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 166 kt target, at 165 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 899 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,040 m of runway left; gear up at 440 ft, 40 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,450 fpm on average to 899 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 3,962 m runway.
Rolled from 208 m in, drifted 4.9 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 40 % 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 six 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 161 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 5 kt below the approach speed of 161 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: slow all the way.
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 3.3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 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: 3.3° here, which is about 350 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 60 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 31× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 11 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 40 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 24 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Slow from 4 nm to the threshold (up to −12 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 tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 733 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 171° at 3 kt · 1 kt head · 2 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 75 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 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 1,642 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 58 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 10 ft. Touched down 733 m in, 428 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 1,642 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 the flare to 40 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.6° 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 1,642 m of the 2,440 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 7.2 m right of the centreline and drifted to 11 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 733 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The B77W taxied from the parking area to runway 18 at EDDF Frankfurt Airport, a movement that required 13 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 18, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 154 kt, using a takeoff distance of 1,595 m which represented 40 % of the runway length; local weather reported a temperature of 19 °C, wind 3 kt from 342°, a 1 kt crosswind component and a 2 kt tailwind.
Climb commenced 2 mi west of Moerfelden-Walldorf, Hessen, Germany, with the airplane rising from 1,298 ft asl to 37,010 ft asl-a gain of 35,711 ft-over 16 minutes while covering 109 nm.
Level cruise began 2 mi west of Monchsdeggingen, Bavaria, Germany, and persisted for 50 minutes, during which the aircraft traversed 401 nm.
Descent was initiated 1 mi north-west of Bisenti, Abruzzo, Italy, descending from 36,993 ft asl to 1,660 ft asl, a loss of 35,333 ft in 24 minutes and a distance of 140 nm.
The final approach to runway 24 at LIRN Naples International Airport was flown from the north-east on a heading of 238.0° at 4 nm and 1,344 ft agl; local conditions were 29 °C, wind 3 kt from 213°, a 1 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind.
A go-around was executed on runway 24 at LIRN when the aircraft reached 119 ft agl, prompting a climb back to a safe altitude before re-establishing a subsequent approach.
Landing on runway 24, which is 2,440 m long, occurred with a threshold height of 59 ft agl slightly above target and a threshold speed of 149 kt slightly below target; touchdown was recorded 343 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 144 kt and a descent rate of 64 fpm, with the touchdown point offset 8.9 m from the centreline.
The rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,588 m, representing 65 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s path was misaligned by 12.0 m from the centreline during the roll.
Taxi-in from the runway to the parking area required 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight logged 791 nm, lasted 142 minutes, and consumed 18,157 kg of fuel.
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