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Improve the touchdown
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.
Lifted off at 165 kt with 4.2° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 195 kt target, at 197 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 figure at liftoff is the pitch then. 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 822 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 871 ft of runway left; gear up at 68 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,180 fpm on average to 822 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 8,416 ft runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 6 ft at the widest, and lifted off 6 ft left. Airborne 70 % 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 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 0.3 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, 1,000 ft 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 10× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 130 ft 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +16 kt on the approach speed of 135 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 3.7 points, for starting the flare at 9 ft agl, below the usual 11 ft agl–45 ft agl.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 359° at 2 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 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 137 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 40 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 5,340 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 24 ft, 26 ft below the 50 ft target; began the flare late, at 9 ft. Touched down 1,098 ft in, close to the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,340 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 300 fpm at the flare to 200 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 5,340 ft of the 8,674 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 5 ft 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 1,098 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (KFLL), the Airbus A300 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 6 minutes and covered 2 nautical miles. As the aircraft lined up on runway 10L, the crew initiated the departure roll, and the aircraft lifted off the ground at a speed of 165 knots, utilizing 70% of the available runway length of 5,855 feet.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb, which started approximately 1 mile northeast of Dania Beach, Florida. The climb phase was characterized by a steady increase in altitude, from 980 feet above sea level to 32,984 feet, a total ascent of 32,004 feet, in 23 minutes and covering 163 nautical miles. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 33 minutes and covered 257 nautical miles, starting approximately 2 miles north of Christmas, Florida. The crew then initiated the enroute descent phase, which began 5 miles southwest of Walterboro, South Carolina, and ended with a descent from 33,000 feet to 4,415 feet, a decrease of 28,585 feet, in 29 minutes and covering 176 nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it entered another level cruise phase, this time lasting only 3 minutes and covering 11 nautical miles, starting overhead Huntersville, North Carolina. The final descent phase began 4 miles southeast of Lowesville, North Carolina, and ended with a descent from 4,251 feet to 2,204 feet, a decrease of 2,046 feet, in 2 minutes and covering 5 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 18L at Charlotte Douglas International Airport (KCLT), touching down on the runway at a speed of 130 knots and a touchdown distance of 1,100 feet. The total landing distance was 5,080 feet, utilizing 59% of the available runway length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a process that took 5 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 622 nautical miles, and the aircraft used 20,714 pounds of fuel during the journey, which lasted a total of 102 minutes.
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