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Arrival
Adjust your approach path so you touch down at the 457 m aim point instead of beyond it.
What happened: Touchdown point came 108 m past the target, landing at 565 m against the 457 m aim point. Landings that touch down this far beyond the aim point typically leave less runway available for stopping.
Watch for: Touchdown distance marker: 457 m from the threshold.
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 24 stages, 19 in the score
The approach before the go-around was abandoned. Its marks are shown, but only the approach that landed counts.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 136 kt, 6 kt below the 142 kt target, and lifted off at 153 kt 3.7 s later, the nose coming up at 2.4° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 179 kt target, at 176 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 826 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,983 m of runway left; gear up at 90 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,800 fpm on average to 826 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 3,570 m runway.
Rolled from 30 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 8.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 8.8 m left. Airborne 34 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 36 kt above the approach speed of 144 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 2.4 to 0.7 nm, then not again: low from 0.3 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.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 50 ft under).
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 4× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 106 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.4 nm (up to +51 kt), then inside the band to 0.7 nm, then slow to 0.3 nm (up to −9 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, wings level.
Wind 340° at 4 kt · 3 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 130 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 40 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 1,878 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 31 ft, 19 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 565 m in, 260 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 1,878 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 350 fpm at the flare to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° 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 1,878 m of the 3,493 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 4.9 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 565 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-800 taxied from the parking area to runway 04 at LSGG Geneva Cointrin International Airport, a taxi of 12 minutes covering 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 04. The aircraft used 1,219 m of runway (34 % of runway length) and rotated at 136 kt. Local weather was 9 °C with wind 3 kt from 262°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt tail-wind component.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 25 seconds at an average rate of 1,648 fpm, reaching 174 kt at the top of the climb. The climb continued from 2,326 ft asl to 37,719 ft asl in 21 minutes, covering 135 nm and passing overhead Le Grand-Saconnex.
Cruise was level at 38,000 ft asl for 12 minutes, covering 84 nm, beginning about 1 mile east of Bauma.
Descent began from 37,999 ft asl to 2,034 ft asl in 46 minutes, covering 247 nm, starting 2 miles south-west of Unterammergau, with brief level-offs at 11,100 ft asl and 10,300 ft asl.
**First approach - runway 29, LOWW Vienna International Airport**
The final approach descended from 1,478 ft agl to 223 ft agl in 124 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope and speed; they were not met for centreline (at one gate) and wings level (at one gate). Configuration was landing gear down at 2,125 ft agl, 187 kt; final flap position 6 at 764 ft agl, 178 kt.
A go-around was executed on runway 29 at 186 ft agl.
**Second approach - runway 29, LOWW Vienna International Airport**
The subsequent final approach descended from 1,554 ft agl to 175 ft agl in 91 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and wings level; speed was not met (at one gate). Configuration remained landing gear down at 2,125 ft agl, 187 kt and flap 6 at 764 ft agl, 178 kt.
Landing was on runway 29, runway length 3,493 m. Threshold height was good and threshold speed was good at 140 kt. The flare was described as perfect. Touchdown occurred 140 m beyond the touchdown zone at 134 kt, with a smooth rate of -128 fpm and perfect runway-touchdown alignment. Local weather was 6 °C with wind 4 kt from 340°, a 2 kt cross-wind and a 3 kt head-wind component. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,789 m (51 % of runway) and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 6 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 521 nm in 110 minutes and used 4,390 kg of fuel.
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