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Work on the flare
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Trim is the hidden variable. In trim, the flare is a small refinement to an aircraft already in equilibrium, a couple of millimetres of stick. Out of trim, you're holding a constant force all the way down final, and the flare becomes a large, badly judged movement stacked on top of a load you're already carrying. A striking proportion of "I can't judge the flare" complaints are trim complaints wearing a disguise. If you're holding pressure at 500 feet, fix that before you practise anything else.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 163 kt with 7.4° 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 941 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,671 m of runway left; then climbing at 2,690 fpm on average to 941 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 3,345 m runway.
Rolled from 166 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 8.8 m at the widest, and lifted off 8.9 m left, in 13 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 50 ft above the slope.
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 7 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.
Fast from 4 nm to 2.9 nm (up to +43 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 73 ft, 23 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 634 m in, 329 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 1,524 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 950 fpm at 71 ft to 490 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 3.0° 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 3,075 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 15 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 4.6 m right by the end of the rollout. 5 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 124 kt. Touched down with the nose 5° into wind, 3.6° of bank.
Wind 150° at 6 kt · 1 kt tail · 5 kt across
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 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. The sentence gives the nose against the direction you were actually moving as the wheels touched, and the steepest bank as they touched, the figure the touchdown's Bank tile marks. The rest of it is shown for reading, not marked.
Touched down 634 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 125 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 36 s, an average deceleration of 0.15 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.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft taxiing from the parking to the runway at London Heathrow Airport, taking 7 minutes and covering less than 1 nautical mile. The departure roll took place on runway 27L, with a takeoff distance of 1,292 meters, which is 39% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 163 knots.
As the aircraft took off, it encountered local weather conditions of 20°C temperature and a wind of 15 knots at 200°. The crosswind was 14 knots, and the headwind was 5 knots. The enroute climb started 1 mile south of Harmondsworth, where the aircraft climbed from 1,082 feet above sea level to 5,375 feet above sea level, an increase of 4,294 feet in 2 minutes, covering 4 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 1 mile northeast of Virginia Water and lasted 50 minutes, covering 16 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another enroute climb, this time from 5,723 feet above sea level to 22,360 feet above sea level, an increase of 16,638 feet in 9 minutes, covering 53 nautical miles. The climb took place overhead Coulsdon.
The enroute level cruise started overhead Ash and lasted 5 minutes, covering 37 nautical miles. The aircraft then began a descent from 22,417 feet above sea level to 18,238 feet above sea level, a decrease of 4,179 feet in 7 minutes, covering 25 nautical miles. The descent started 11 miles north of Dunkirk.
The enroute level cruise started 1 mile north of Vladslo and lasted 2 minutes, covering 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then began another descent, this time from 17,509 feet above sea level to 9,674 feet above sea level, a decrease of 7,835 feet in 5 minutes, covering 29 nautical miles. The descent took place overhead Bovekerke.
The enroute level cruise started overhead Bottelare and lasted 2 minutes, covering 8 nautical miles. The aircraft then began another descent, this time from 9,672 feet above sea level to 1,916 feet above sea level, a decrease of 7,756 feet in 9 minutes, covering 36 nautical miles. The descent started overhead Erpe.
The enroute level cruise started 1 mile southeast of Herselt and lasted 4 minutes, covering 13 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 25R at Brussels Airport took place from the northeast, heading 245.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,237 feet above ground level.
The landing took place on runway 25R, which is 3,075 meters long. The threshold height was well above target, and the threshold speed was slightly above target at 136 knots. The touchdown point was 214 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 124 knots, which was good. However, the touchdown rate was hard at -487 feet per minute.
The runway touchdown position was significantly misaligned by 15.6 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 9°C temperature and a wind of 6 knots at 150°, with a crosswind of 6 knots and a tailwind of 1 knot. The total landing distance was 1,438 meters, which is 47% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was slightly misaligned by 15.0 meters from the centerline.
The taxiing to the parking from the runway took 6 minutes and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 228 nautical miles, taking 59 minutes, and the aircraft used 2,024 kilograms of
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