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Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 160 kt with 9.4° of pitch.
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 938 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,794 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,630 fpm on average to 938 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,527 m runway.
Rolled from 58 m in, drifted 5.5 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off, in 12 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 43 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.2 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 40 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 45× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 8 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +6 kt on the approach speed of 131 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
12 kt across from the right, which takes about 5° of crab to hold the centreline at 126 kt. Touched down with the nose 6° into wind, wings level.
Wind 090° at 15 kt · 7 kt head · 12 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 118 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 26 s, an average deceleration of 0.18 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 20 ft, 30 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 230 m in, 75 m short of 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 400 fpm at 18 ft to 260 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.2° 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 2,142 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.2 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 0.1 m right by the end of 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 230 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 9 minutes and covered a distance of 3 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, then departed from runway 36L at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The takeoff distance was 1,465 meters, which accounted for 42% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 161 knots.
The local weather conditions at the time of departure were characterized by a temperature of 17 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 16 knots at a direction of 300 degrees. This resulted in a crosswind of 14 knots and a headwind of 7 knots. The aircraft then began its enroute climb, starting 1 mile east of Vijfhuizen, a town in the province of Noord-Holland, Netherlands. The climb took 15 minutes, during which the aircraft ascended from 993 feet above sea level to 37,201 feet, an increase of 36,208 feet.
Following the initial climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted 25 minutes and covered a distance of 728 nautical miles. The cruise phase started 25 miles north of Sheringham, a town in Norfolk, England. The aircraft then began another climb, this time from 37,752 feet to 38,712 feet, an increase of 960 feet, in just 2 minutes. This climb took place at a location with coordinates 55.9095432 latitude and -19.4902756 longitude.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted 41 minutes and covered a distance of 1,241 nautical miles. This cruise phase started at a location with coordinates 56.0224878 latitude and -20.5922418 longitude. The aircraft then began another climb, this time from 38,176 feet to 39,068 feet, an increase of 892 feet, in just 2 minutes. This climb took place 29 miles northwest of CCH4 Charlottetown Airport, located in Charlottetown, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
The aircraft then entered another level cruise phase, which lasted 34 minutes and covered a distance of 847 nautical miles. This cruise phase started 49 miles west of CCP4 Port Hope Simpson Airport, located in Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The aircraft then began its descent, starting 4 miles southeast of Bolton Landing, a town in New York, United States. The descent took 10 minutes, during which the aircraft descended from 40,081 feet to 5,192 feet, a decrease of 34,889 feet.
Following the initial descent, the aircraft entered a short level cruise phase, which lasted 3 minutes and covered a distance of 26 nautical miles. This cruise phase started 4 miles northwest of Lake Telemark, a lake in New Jersey, United States. The aircraft then began another descent, starting overhead Bound Brook, a town in New Jersey, United States. The descent took 6 minutes, during which the aircraft descended from 4,802 feet to 1,281 feet, a decrease of 3,522 feet.
The final approach to runway 04R at KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport was made from the southwest, with a heading of 26.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,258 feet above ground level. The landing was successful, with a touchdown speed of 126 knots and a touchdown distance of 231 meters. The touchdown rate was fair at -258 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.4 meters from the centerline.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 12 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 15 knots at a direction of 90 degrees. This resulted in a
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