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Work on the flare
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Fast at the threshold, normal flare, and the runway seems to refuse the aircraft. The instinctive fix - pushing it on - causes the next one. A fast aircraft forced onto the runway touches nosewheel-first or nearly so. The tell is a touchdown that feels soft followed by a bounce that steepens. Pilots fix the bounce recovery; the cause was the 10 knots at the threshold.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 237 kt with 7.8° 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 991 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 697 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,770 fpm on average to 991 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 2,288 m runway.
Rolled from 84 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 9 m at the widest, and lifted off 9.1 m right. Airborne 61 % 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 final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 1.9 nm, where the final began, to 0.4 nm (up to 870 ft over), then back on it to the threshold.
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 329 m right of the centreline at 1.9 nm, then 25 m left of it from 0.4 nm to the threshold.
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 1.9 nm, where the final began, to the threshold (up to +139 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
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 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 174 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 19 s, an average deceleration of 0.42 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 60 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 527 m in, 222 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 grew from 330 fpm at 59 ft to 760 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 2,288 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 4.9 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 2.3 m left 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.
Touched down 527 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 1.63 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The F4 Phantom took off from runway 13 at EGOV Anglesey Airport, rolling down the runway with an angle of departure. The aircraft lifted off the ground at a speed of 237 knots, covering a distance of 1,326 meters, which was 58% of the runway length. The local weather conditions at the time of takeoff were characterized by a temperature of 18 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 269 degrees, resulting in a negligible crosswind and tailwind.
As the aircraft climbed away from the airport, it began its enroute climb over the town of Rhosneigr, located on the island of Anglesey in Wales. The climb started at an altitude of 1,060 feet above sea level and reached a height of 1,282 feet, an increase of 222 feet in just one minute. During this climb, the aircraft covered a distance of 14 nautical miles.
After completing the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which began over the town of Llanberis in Gwynedd, Wales. This phase of the flight lasted for six minutes and covered a distance of 17 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its final approach to runway 13 at EGOV Anglesey Airport, heading in a northeasterly direction at an altitude of 484 feet above ground level.
The final approach was characterized by a heading of 128.0 degrees and a distance of one nautical mile from the runway threshold. However, the aircraft touched down 172 meters beyond the touchdown zone, indicating that the pilot may have misjudged the landing distance. The touchdown speed was also higher than desired, at 172 knots, and the touchdown rate was very heavy, at -760 feet per minute. Additionally, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline by 4.9 meters.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were similar to those at takeoff, with a temperature of 19 degrees Celsius and a wind speed of 1 knot from a direction of 269 degrees. The crosswind and tailwind components were negligible. The total landing distance was 1,202 meters, which was 53% of the runway length. The runway rollout alignment was very good, indicating that the pilot had maintained control of the aircraft during the landing roll.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 34 nautical miles and lasted for eight minutes, consuming 2,050 kilograms of fuel.
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