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Departure
Make small rudder corrections against a point at the far end to hold the centreline.
What happened: During the ground roll you drifted 103 ft off the runway centreline.
Watch for: Watch runway alignment against the centreline, correcting with small rudder inputs.
See Departure Roll
Arrival
Add power on short final to recover 82 kt by the threshold, then hold that speed through the flare.
What happened: Crossing the threshold at 73 kt against the 82 kt target usually leaves too little energy for the flare, and the sink that then returns usually carries through to a firm touchdown.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 82 kt at the threshold.
Preparing for a stable approach will give you time to decide on whether to attempt the landing or going around. Too much altitude with a high sink rate will result in carrying too much speed onto the runway. Configuring flaps and the gear late also won't help the speed decay.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 98 kt with 2.5° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 95 kt target, at 90 kt on average.
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 912 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 4,200 ft of runway left; gear up at 402 ft, 2 ft past the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 1,030 fpm on average to 912 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 11,027 ft runway.
Rolled from 959 ft in, drifted right of the centreline, 103 ft at the widest, and lifted off 18 ft left. Airborne 52 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3° and speed more than 21 kt above the approach speed of 82 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Not every check held at once from 3.8 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.
High from 3.8 nm, where the final began, to 0.7 nm (up to 1,630 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, 1,000 ft 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 9× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 3.8 nm, never more than 130 ft 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 21 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 12 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Outside the speed band twice; furthest +40 kt at 3.1 nm.
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
The flare strayed well off the target profile. The flare took all the sink out 30 ft agl above the runway and the aircraft settled on from there, 941 fpm of sink coming back, having crossed the threshold below target speed. Touchdown was 319 ft past the threshold. Carry the speed to the flare and hold it lower - the aircraft ran out of lift before the wheels arrived, so the fix is energy on the approach, not attitude.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 2° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 239° at 4 kt · 4 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.
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Began the flare at 40 ft, 218 ft before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 33 ft, 17 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 319 ft in, 681 ft short of the ideal 1,000 ft.
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 5,000 ft across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 1,000 ft 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 750 fpm at the flare to 90 fpm at 31 ft, then back up to 1,260 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 7.8° 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 5,000 ft of the 11,031 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline and drifted to 57 ft 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 319 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.43 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
Departing Mactan Cebu International Airport's runway 04R, the Douglas DC-3 began its takeoff roll, accelerating down the 5,725-foot runway before lifting off at a speed of 98 knots. The aircraft's climb was initiated approximately one mile northeast of the airport, where it ascended from 965 feet above sea level to 6,669 feet, a gain of 5,704 feet in just five minutes, covering a distance of nine nautical miles.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it leveled off at cruise altitude four miles east of Compostela, maintaining a steady altitude for two minutes while covering three nautical miles. The descent phase began four miles southeast of Compostela, where the aircraft dropped from 5,936 feet to 1,806 feet in three minutes, a decrease of 4,130 feet, and covered five nautical miles. The final approach to runway 22L at Mactan Cebu International Airport was initiated from the northeast, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 223.0 degrees at 3 nautical miles and 1,765 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 22L was executed with a threshold speed of 73 knots, which was above the target speed. However, the touchdown speed of 73 knots was too fast, resulting in a heavy touchdown rate of -1,090 feet per minute. The aircraft touched down 314 feet down the runway, with a touchdown position slightly misaligned from the centerline by 16 feet. The total landing distance was 1,945 feet, accounting for 17 percent of the runway's length. Following the landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in two minutes, covering less than one nautical mile. The total flight distance was 24 nautical miles, with a flight time of 17 minutes and a fuel consumption of 162 pounds.
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