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Work on the flare
See Arrival Landing
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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Taxi out
The roll
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 2,822 m runway.
Rolled from 62 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 19 m at the widest, and lifted off 19 m left, in 14 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 65 % 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.
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 982 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 693 m of runway left; then climbing at 3,190 fpm on average to 982 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.
Speed and pitch from brake release to the end of the climb, against time.
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 grey dashed line across the pitch is the attitude held from 35 ft to the end: a nose held steady is a climb speed that holds, and the airspeed trace sits directly above it to compare. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 60 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 20× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 19 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 from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +14 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
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 1,858 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 87 ft, 37 ft above the 50 ft target. Touched down 715 m in, 410 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 1,858 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 1,560 fpm at 84 ft to 230 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 2.1° on the way down. Into 84 ft at 153 kt, 14 kt over the 139 kt approach speed, and 144 kt at touchdown.
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 1,858 m of the 4,065 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6.2 m right of the centreline, and steered back to 0.3 m left by the end of the rollout. 6 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 144 kt. Touched down with the nose 4° into wind, 2.0° of bank.
Wind 340° at 21 kt · 20 kt head · 6 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 715 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 121 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 41 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 a taxiing period from the parking to the runway, which took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, then departed from runway 18L at EHAM Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The takeoff distance was 1,786 meters, which accounted for 63% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 170 knots, and the local weather conditions at the time of departure were a temperature of 7°C and a wind speed of 18 knots at 80°.
As the aircraft climbed, it started its enroute climb 1 mile north east of Aalsmeerderbrug, a location in the province of Noord-Holland, The Netherlands. The climb took 22 minutes and covered a distance of 140 nautical miles, during which the aircraft ascended from an altitude of 1,051 feet above sea level to 35,417 feet above sea level, an increase of 34,367 feet.
Following the enroute climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which started 2 miles west of Delbrueck, a location in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. This phase lasted for 120 minutes and covered a distance of 915 nautical miles.
As the aircraft approached its destination, it began its enroute descent 8 miles east of Radnevo, a location in Oblast Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. The descent took 32 minutes and covered a distance of 134 nautical miles, during which the aircraft descended from an altitude of 35,588 feet above sea level to 1,628 feet above sea level, a decrease of 33,960 feet.
The final approach to runway 35R at LTFM İstanbul Airport was made from the south, with a heading of 359.0° at an altitude of 4 nautical miles and 1,422 feet above ground level. The landing was made on runway 35R, which had a length of 4,065 meters. The threshold height at 87 feet above ground level was significantly above the target, and the threshold speed was slightly above the target at 153 knots.
The touchdown point was 270 meters beyond the touchdown zone, and the touchdown speed was 144 knots, which was a little fast. The touchdown rate was fair at -234 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 6.6 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were a temperature of 3°C and a wind speed of 21 knots at 340°, with a crosswind of 7 knots and a headwind of 20 knots.
The total landing distance was 1,748 meters, which accounted for 43% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The taxiing period from the runway to the parking took 10 minutes and covered a distance of 2 nautical miles. The total flight distance was 1,198 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 195 minutes. The aircraft used 7,300 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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