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Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 238 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 238 fpm next time
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 134 kt, on the 132 kt target, and lifted off at 143 kt 2.5 s later, the nose coming up at 4.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 182 kt, 6 kt over its 176 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 910 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,981 m of runway left; gear up at 5 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,440 fpm on average to 910 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 4,051 m runway.
Rolled from 605 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 3 m left. Airborne 44 % 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 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 80 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° 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 22× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 16 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 31 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 19 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +2 kt and +36 kt on the approach speed of 124 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
Great landing flare. It lost 4.8 points, partly for taking only 321 fpm of the sink out.
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 118 kt. Touched down with the nose 2° into wind, wings level.
Wind 181° at 4 kt · 1 kt head · 3 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 119 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 52 s, an average deceleration of 0.09 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 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 31 ft, 19 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare at 12 ft. Touched down 482 m in, 177 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 1,524 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 390 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at 5 ft, then back up to 240 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.7° 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 1,524 m of the 3,774 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.6 m 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 482 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-700 taxied from the parking area to runway 05C at HECA Cairo International Airport in 3 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 05C, the aircraft accelerated to a liftoff speed of 144 kt and departed after using 1,779 m of runway, representing 44 % of the available length; ambient temperature was 39 °C with a wind of 3 kt from 299°, a 3 kt cross-wind component and a 1 kt tail-wind component.
Climb commenced approximately 1 mile north-east of HECA, with the airplane climbing from 1,367 ft asl to 39,633 ft asl, an altitude gain of 38,266 ft achieved in 44 minutes while covering 333 nm.
The first cruise segment began 10 miles north-west of Pomos (Paphos District, Cyprus) and continued for 176 minutes, during which the aircraft flew 1,343 nm at level altitude.
Descent was initiated 13 miles north-east of Poddor'ye (Novgorod Oblast, Russia), descending from 39,989 ft asl to 2,510 ft asl, a loss of 37,479 ft in 20 minutes and traversing 135 nm.
A brief second cruise started 4 miles north-east of UKIP Kipen' Airport (Leningrad Oblast, Russia), lasting 2 minutes and covering 9 nm before the final approach.
The final approach to runway 10R at ULLI Pulkovo Airport was flown from the west on a heading of 107.0°, intercepting the approach at 4 nm and 1,312 ft agl.
Landing on runway 10R, which is 3,774 m long, was executed with a threshold speed of 126 kt; touchdown occurred 62 m beyond the touchdown zone at 118 kt, with a smooth touchdown rate of minus 116 fpm and very good alignment; local conditions were 20 °C, wind 4 kt from 182°, a 4 kt cross-wind and a 1 kt head-wind component; the total landing distance was 932 m, representing 25 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was reported as perfect as the aircraft decelerated to a stop.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 1 minute, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,827 nm, required 250 minutes of airborne time, and consumed 10,018 kg of fuel.
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