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Arrival
Use small rudder inputs against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during rollout.
What happened: During the rollout the aircraft drifted 29 m off the centreline.
Watch for: Runway centreline marks: hold the aircraft tracking straight down the centreline through rollout
See Arrival Rollout
Ground control varies with speed, full authority at walking pace, progressively reducing as groundspeed rises. The aircraft becomes twitchy at any speed, every small pedal input swings the nose, which can encourage large-amplitude leg inputs that no real aircraft would accept.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 152 kt, 6 kt above the 146 kt target, and lifted off at 165 kt 3.5 s later, the nose coming up at 2.3° a second. Climb 3 held close to its 184 kt target, at 183 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 829 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,819 m of runway left; gear up at 690 ft, inside the 806 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,460 fpm on average to 829 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 3,582 m runway.
Rolled from 108 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 7.4 m at the widest, and lifted off 7.6 m left. Airborne 40 % 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 0.2 nm, then not again: high from 0.2 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 0.2 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 40 ft over).
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 26× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 14 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 35 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −3 kt and +8 kt on the approach speed of 138 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
The flare tracked the target profile closely. The aircraft floated down the runway before touching. Touchdown was 756 m past the threshold. Threshold speed was not the cause here - hold the aim point on the approach and let the aircraft settle rather than holding it off, and the touchdown comes back to the numbers.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 3° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 147° at 4 kt · 2 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 135 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 30 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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 1,868 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 80 ft, 30 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare at 37 ft. Touched down 756 m in, 451 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 1,868 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 930 fpm at the flare to 470 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 1.8° 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 1,868 m of the 3,273 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 9 m right of the centreline and drifted to 17 m left 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 756 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 468 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The aircraft taxied from the parking area to runway 24 at RPLL Ninoy Aquino International Airport in 14 minutes, covering a distance of 3 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 24, the Airbus A330-900 accelerated over a takeoff distance of 1,435 m, representing 40 % of the runway, and lifted off at 166 kt. Ambient conditions were a temperature of 32 °C with wind from 260° at 7 kt; the cross-component was 2 kt and the headwind component 7 kt.
The initial climb began overhead RPLL, climbing from 1,018 ft asl to 35,999 ft asl - an increase of 34,981 ft - in 26 minutes while traversing 181 nm.
The first cruise segment commenced 14 mi south-west of CUJ Culion Airport and lasted 8 minutes, during which 69 nm were covered.
A subsequent climb started 33 mi west of RP71 El Nido, rising from 36,193 ft asl to 36,971 ft asl - a gain of 778 ft - in 2 minutes and covering 13 nm.
The next cruise phase originated 46 mi north-west of San Vicente, continued for 32 minutes and spanned 265 nm.
A further climb was initiated 86 mi north-east of LAC Layang-Layang Airport, increasing altitude from 37,005 ft asl to 37,806 ft asl - a rise of 801 ft - in 2 minutes over 13 nm.
The following cruise segment began 72 mi north-east of LAC Layang-Layang Airport, lasted 77 minutes and covered 657 nm.
Descent 1 started 87 mi south of WIDL Letung Airport, descending from 37,990 ft asl to 5,078 ft asl - a loss of 32,912 ft - in 20 minutes while traveling 119 nm.
Cruise 2 was conducted 11 mi east of WSAC Changi Air Base (East), lasting 2 minutes and encompassing 6 nm.
Descent 2 began 13 mi north-east of WSAC Changi Air Base (East), dropping from 4,594 ft asl to 2,503 ft asl - a decrease of 2,091 ft - in 3 minutes and covering 10 nm.
Cruise 3 originated 11 mi north of WSSS Singapore Changi Airport, persisted for 3 minutes and spanned 7 nm.
The final approach to runway 20R at WSSS Singapore Changi Airport was flown from the north on a heading of 203.0°, at 4 nm and 1,293 ft agl.
A go-around was executed on runway 20R at an altitude of 255 ft agl.
Landing on runway 20R, whose length is 3,273 m, occurred with a threshold height of 80 ft agl that was significantly above target and a threshold speed of 142 kt. Touchdown was recorded 288 m beyond the touchdown zone, at a speed of 133 kt and a vertical rate of minus 253 fpm; the touchdown point was misaligned by 12.8 m from the centreline. Local weather reported a temperature of 32 °C, wind from 145° at 3 kt, with a 3 kt crosswind and a 2 kt headwind. The total landing distance measured 1,735 m, representing 53 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was noted to be misaligned by 26.0 m from the centreline.
After landing, the aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 9 minutes, covering 2 nm.
In total, the flight covered 1,423 nm, took 215, and consumed 18,291 kg of fuel.
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