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Departure
Use smaller, smoother aileron inputs to hold the climb bank angle near wings-level.
What happened: During Climb 3 the bank angle averaged 12°, well beyond a steady wings-level climb.
Watch for: Attitude indicator - bank angle, keeping it close to wings-level through the climb.
Arrival
Track the centreline through touchdown using small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway.
What happened: The aircraft touched down off the centreline at 19 m, and drifting off centreline at touchdown usually carries through into the rollout, as it did here with alignment reaching 21 m.
Watch for: Watch runway centreline position, keeping deviation inside the limit through touchdown and 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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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,905 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,905 m of the 2,864 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 750 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-300ER taxied from the parking area to runway 09L at EGLL London Heathrow Airport, a taxi of 16 minutes covering 2 nm.
Take-off was performed on runway 09L, using 2,505 m (70 % of the runway). Rotation occurred at 164 kt. Local weather at departure was 12 °C, wind 1 kt from 281°, with 0 kt crosswind and a 1 kt tailwind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 23 seconds, averaging 1,614 fpm and reaching 182 kt at the top of the segment.
The climb continued from 883 ft asl to 29,999 ft asl in 19 minutes, covering 118 nm, beginning 1 mile north of Feltham.
Cruise level flight was held between 30,000 ft asl and 32,000 ft asl for 468 minutes, covering 3,567 nm, starting 8 miles south of Lyme Regis.
A further climb from 32,727 ft asl to 35,005 ft asl lasted 2 minutes over 10 nm, beginning 9 miles south-east of Bristol.
The aircraft then levelled at 35,500 ft asl for 90 minutes, covering 636 nm, starting 3 miles north-west of 0A9 Elizabethton Muni.
Descent from 35,822 ft asl to 3,044 ft asl took 29 minutes over 148 nm, beginning 5 miles south of KPOE Polk Army Air Field, with a brief level-off at 8,100 ft asl.
Level flight at 3,000 ft asl continued for 6 minutes, covering 22 nm, starting 1 mile east of T51 May Houston.
A further descent from 2,664 ft asl to 1,379 ft asl lasted 4 minutes over 12 nm, beginning 1 mile south-east of T51 May Houston.
Final approach to runway 08R at KIAH George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport began at 1,316 ft agl and descended to 142 ft agl in 97 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed and wings level. Configuration on final was flap position 4 at 1,889 ft agl with a speed of 194 kt.
Landing on runway 08R (runway length 2,864 m) recorded a threshold height of 73 ft agl, noted as well above target, and a threshold speed of 151 kt, described as good. The flare was excellent; the aircraft floated before touchdown. Touchdown occurred 328 m beyond the touchdown zone at a speed of 146 kt, noted as a little fast, with a perfect vertical rate of minus 18 fpm. The touchdown point was misaligned by 19.4 m from the centreline. No bounce occurred.
Total landing distance was 1,818 m (63 % of the runway). Runway rollout alignment was misaligned by 21.0 m from the centreline. Local weather at landing was 26 °C, wind 6 kt from 357°, with 6 kt crosswind and 0 kt headwind.
The flight covered a total of 4,521 nm in 648 minutes, using 90,048 kg of fuel.
The Airbus A380-800 completed a stabilised approach to runway 07C at VHHH Hong Kong International Airport, with the 1,000 ft gate confirming gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope, centreline and speed all within limits. The descent progressed from 1,334 ft AGL to 68 ft AGL over 100 seconds and the approach earned full marks on the stabilisation gates, contributing to the overall score of 98.4 %.
At threshold the aircraft displayed good height and a threshold speed of 136 kt, both recorded as good. The flare transitioned smoothly to a touchdown speed of 129 kt, a touchdown rate of minus 158 fpm and runway-touchdown alignment described as very good.
Touchdown occurred 219 m beyond the touchdown zone, with the speed of 129 kt and the rate of minus 158 fpm both judged good, and the alignment remained very good throughout the contact phase.
Rollout covered a total landing distance of 1,799 m, representing 50 % of the 3,621 m runway, and the runway-rollout alignment was very good under the reported weather of 31 °C, wind 4 kt from 310°, crosswind 3 kt and tailwind 2 kt.
A minor refinement would be to adjust flare timing to achieve touchdown nearer the 300 m (1,000 ft) aim point, which would further reduce rollout distance while preserving the excellent speed and alignment already demonstrated.
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