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Arrival
Nothing to change in the speed, the height or the flare. Keep the landing attitude held until the mains are on, so the aircraft is not let down onto the runway in the last moment.
What happened: The touchdown rate was 288 fpm. Nothing before it explains that: threshold speed and height were within limits and the flare was flown normally.
Watch for: Touchdown rate: a little less than 288 fpm next time
Twenty knots on a monitor produces the visual sensation of about ten. The advice to "taxi at a walking pace" cannot fix this, because your sense of walking pace is exactly the thing that's broken. Put the groundspeed readout in your scan and obey it for the next fifty flights, the way a student pilot leans on the airspeed indicator before learning to read attitude.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 156 kt, 7 kt above the 149 kt target, and lifted off at 165 kt 2.8 s later, the nose coming up at 3.2° a second. Climb 3 averaged 175 kt, 12 kt under its 187 kt target.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 888 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,684 m of runway left; gear up at 386 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,520 fpm on average to 888 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 3,657 m runway.
Rolled from 125 m in, drifted 4.3 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 45 % 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.
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.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then not again: low from 0.3 nm to the threshold.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 0.3 nm, then low to the threshold (up to 60 ft under).
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. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 28× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 13 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 33 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 20 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −2 kt and +4 kt on the approach speed of 132 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 2.9 points, partly for taking only 391 fpm of the sink out.
Little crosswind (2 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° left of the track, 3° of bank.
Wind 000° at 3 kt · 1 kt head · 2 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 131 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 28 s, an average deceleration of 0.19 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.
Began the flare at 32 ft, 87 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 23 ft, 27 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 507 m in, 202 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 390 fpm at the flare to 10 fpm at 9 ft, then back up to 290 fpm at touchdown. The pitch barely changed.
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 2,310 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 1.8 m of it down 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 507 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 288 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 777-200ER taxied from the parking area to runway 05L at RCTP Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in 6 minutes, covering 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 05L, the aircraft used 1,642 m of runway, representing 45 % of the available length, and lifted off at 165 kt; ambient temperature was 29 °C with a wind of 9 kt from 49°, giving a headwind component of 9 kt and zero cross-wind.
The initial climb began overhead RCTP, climbing from 1,035 ft asl to 34,667 ft asl, an altitude gain of 33,632 ft achieved in 27 minutes while covering 189 nm.
Level cruise commenced at latitude 26.6625684, longitude 124.0056807 and continued for 272 minutes, during which 2,452 nm were flown.
A subsequent climb segment started at latitude 51.3819935, longitude 165.7576063, rising from 34,988 ft asl to 36,991 ft asl, a gain of 2,002 ft in 3 minutes over 30 nm.
The aircraft then cruised from latitude 51.5191343, longitude 166.5803988 for 166 minutes, covering 1,421 nm.
A further climb began at latitude 51.6375942, longitude -155.0724341, increasing altitude from 37,038 ft asl to 38,996 ft asl, a rise of 1,959 ft in 3 minutes across 27 nm.
Cruise continued from latitude 51.5342505, longitude -154.3378672 for 224 minutes, during which 1,893 nm were traversed.
Descent commenced 4 miles south of Topanga, California, descending from 38,996 ft asl to 6,380 ft asl, a loss of 32,616 ft in 17 minutes while covering 108 nm.
A brief level segment followed 2 miles west of La Mesa, California, lasting 2 minutes and spanning 5 nm.
The next descent started overhead Spring Valley, California, dropping from 5,876 ft asl to 1,505 ft asl, a decrease of 4,371 ft in 4 minutes over 12 nm.
Final approach to runway 27 at KSAN San Diego International Airport was executed from the east on a heading of 286.0°, beginning 4 nm out at 1,476 ft agl; the aircraft then descended from 1,537 ft agl to 22 ft agl in 103 seconds and met the stabilisation gate criteria.
Landing on runway 27, whose length is 2,310 m, was achieved with a threshold speed of 133 kt; touchdown occurred 90 m beyond the touchdown zone at 130 kt, with a vertical speed of minus 218 fpm and perfect runway alignment. Ambient temperature was 24 °C, wind 2 kt from 0°, providing a headwind component of 1 kt and a cross-wind of 2 kt. The total landing roll measured 1,334 m, representing 58 % of the runway.
Runway rollout alignment was assessed as very good.
The aircraft taxied from the runway to the parking area in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
In total, the flight covered 6,149 nm, lasted 728 minutes, and consumed 85,697 kg of fuel.
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