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Keep the approach speed on target
See Arrival Landing
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 141 kt with 7.2° 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 takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to 326 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,022 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,690 fpm on average to 326 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.
Plan view the roll down the 1,962 m runway.
Rolled from 53 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 5.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 5.1 m left. Airborne 32 % 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.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Very poor landing flare
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, 175° of bank.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt head · 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 558 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 29 s, an average deceleration of 0.98 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 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 279 m in, close to 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 0 fpm at 47 ft to 0 fpm at 47 ft, then back up to 2,850 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.9° 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 full 1,524 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 7.6 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 279 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. It bounced.
The rest of the report
A Boeing F/A-18E fighter jet departed from runway 29 at the LLJR Jerusalem airport, achieving liftoff at a speed of 142 knots after covering 29% of the runway, which required a takeoff distance of 576 meters. The local weather conditions at the time were characterized by a temperature of 16 degrees Celsius and a very light headwind of 1 kilometer per hour blowing from a direction of 269 degrees.
The fighter jet began its enroute climb after reaching a height of 2,824 feet above sea level, and over the next 4 minutes, it ascended to a height of 9,998 feet, covering a distance of 16 nautical miles. The climb rate was significant, with an increase of 7,174 feet in just 4 minutes, demonstrating the impressive capabilities of the F/A-18E.
As it continued its flight, the aircraft leveled off briefly over the Nuba area, before beginning a short descent. This was followed by another climb phase, this time from a height of 847 feet to 4,409 feet over the Gaza Strip. However, the aircraft quickly began another descent, but only lost 2,986 feet in 2 minutes, leveling off again over the LLAZ Gush Katif Airport in Khan Yunis.
The fighter jet initiated yet another climb phase, and within just 2 minutes, it had ascended to a height of 14,277 feet. However, this climb was followed by a steep descent, during which the aircraft lost a significant 13,418 feet in a mere 2 minutes, before finally touching down near Al Burayj in the Gaza Strip.
The approach and touchdown phase of the flight was notable for its speed, with the fighter jet touching down at 561 knots, which is well above the normal landing speed. The touchdown rate was also very heavy, at -2,853 feet per minute, but the touchdown distance was reasonable at 279 meters.
Following a good landing rollout, the aircraft was brought to a stop, taxiing to the parking area from the runway in under 1 minute and covering a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. Overall, the flight covered a total distance of 63 nautical miles, took 16 minutes, and consumed 1,759 kilograms of fuel.
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