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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Shorten the long landing
Ground effect becomes significant below about one wingspan of height. A Cessna 172, with a 36 ft span, enters ground effect at flare height - the float it feels in the hold-off is ground effect arriving on cue. An A320, with a span around 117 ft, has been in ground effect since before the threshold and there is no sudden cushion to feel, only a gradual reduction in induced drag that lengthens any float you allow.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
One stabilised approach gate: five checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
Side view — the last 2,400 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 2,400 m of the 3,195 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1,087 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight on the Boeing 777-300 began with a 20-minute taxi from the parking area to the runway, covering 3 nm. The departure roll took place on runway 12R at MMUN Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún, with a takeoff distance of 2,309 m, using 66% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 180 kn, with the local weather showing a temperature of 32 °C, wind at 12 kn at 100 °, crosswind of 5 kn, and headwind of 11 kn.
The enroute climb started 1 mile southeast of MMUN Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún, climbing from 1,043 ft asl to 36,403 ft asl in 23 minutes, covering 142 nm. The enroute level cruise began at Latitude: 23.3583676, Longitude: -86.3193587, and lasted 147 minutes, covering 1,188 nm.
The enroute descent started 3 miles southwest of Cassadaga (New York, United States), descending from 35,859 ft asl to 12,354 ft asl in 11 minutes, covering 67 nm. Another enroute level cruise started 11 miles east of Oakville (Ontario, Canada), lasting 4 minutes and covering less than 1 nm. The subsequent descent from 12,354 ft asl to 5,555 ft asl began 11 miles east of Oakville, taking 4 minutes and covering 14 nm.
After another brief level cruise overhead Roncesvalles (Ontario, Canada) for 2 minutes covering 9 nm, the descent started overhead Tam O'Shanter-Sullivan (Ontario, Canada). This descent was from 5,216 ft asl to 3,350 ft asl, covering 7 nm in 2 minutes. The final level cruise started 2 miles east of Markham (Ontario, Canada), lasting 6 minutes and covering 17 nm.
The landing occurred on runway 23 at CYYZ Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport, with a runway length of 3,195 m. The height at threshold was 58 ft agl, with a speed at threshold of 156 kn. The touchdown was 1,088 m from the threshold, with a touchdown speed of 136 kn and a VSI of -190 ft/m. The local weather at landing showed a temperature of 23 °C, wind at 25 kn at 230 °, crosswind of 2 kn, and a headwind of 25 kn. The total landing distance was 2,323 m, using 73% of the runway.
Finally, the taxi from the runway to the parking area took 9 minutes, covering 2 nm. The total flight distance was 1,459 nm, with a total duration of 246 minutes and using 29,591 kg of fuel.
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