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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 184 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 164 kt against a target of 184 kt, running 20 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 184 kt.
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming through the flare so the sink does not return at 434 fpm.
What happened: The flare arrested the sink, but then the sink returned before touchdown.
Watch for: Watch the VSI in the flare and keep arrested sink from returning before touchdown at 486 fpm.
See Arrival Landing
There are several things that can go wrong during the flare, carrying too much speed over the threshold, starting the flare at the wrong height and inconsistent flight control inputs, all contribute to a poor flare resulting in a hard touchdown or a float down the runway.
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Taxi out
The roll
A clean takeoff
Rotated at 151 kt against the 150 kt rotate speed, the nose rising at 3.0° a second, then held 14.8° from 35 ft, within 4.9° top to bottom.
Rotated on speed at a steady rate, and the climb attitude held. This is the takeoff to repeat: the same speed check, the same pull, the same attitude.
Liftoff and climb
Plan view the roll down the 9,976 ft runway.
Rolled from 298 ft in, never more than 5 ft off the centreline, in 6 kn of crosswind from the left. Airborne 56 % 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 897 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 3,313 ft of runway left; gear up at 222 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,350 fpm on average to 897 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 dark stretch of the roll is the run with the nose up and the wheels still on, with its length and time under the runway. The gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. 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 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 grey band is the run between the nose coming up and the wheels leaving the runway. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The rotation detail below draws the rotation against the rates for this aircraft and its tail-strike pitch, where the slope reads properly. 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.
Rotation detail the pitch over the seconds from rotation to 35 ft, where the slope reads properly.
The pitch over the seconds from the nose starting to come up to 35 ft, stretched so the slope reads properly. The green dot is where the nose started up, the grey band runs to the wheels leaving, and the figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up. The two dashed green lines rising from the rotation point are 2.4 to 5.0° a second, the middle half of rotation rates flown by other Boeing 737-900ER pilots over the last 180 days (52 takeoffs); the grey pair are 2 to 3° a second, the rates airliners are rotated at. A trace steeper than both green lines is a faster rotation than most, one shallower than both a slower one. The red dashed line is 10°, the pitch at which this aircraft's tail touches the runway with the wheels still on it, drawn from rotation to liftoff only: once the wheels leave, every foot climbed adds tail clearance.
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 0.5 to 0.2 nm, then not again: fast from 0.2 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.
Inside the glideslope band from 4 nm to the threshold, never more than 100 ft below the slope.
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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 0.7 nm, then drifted 90 ft right between 0.7 and 0.5 nm, then inside the band from 0.5 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 34 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 21 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 4 nm to 0.2 nm, then fast to the threshold (up to +13 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
Excellent landing flare
It lost 3.1 points, for 434 fpm of sink coming back after the flare.
Touchdown
Rollout
Taxi in
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 41 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 28 ft. Touched down 1,881 ft in, 881 ft past 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 590 fpm at the flare to 60 fpm at 13 ft, then back up to 490 fpm at touchdown. The nose went down 0.8° on the way down. Into the flare at 150 kt, 13 kt over the 137 kt approach speed, and 146 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 5,000 ft of the 7,397 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down on the centreline, and stayed within 9 ft of it down the rollout. No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 154° at 7 kt · 7 kt head · 0 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 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 1,881 ft past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 2.38 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The stop — touchdown to taxi speed.
From 141 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 19 s, an average deceleration of 0.31 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 Boeing 737-900 departed KMSP Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport on runway 12R. The take-off roll was 5,572 ft, using 56 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 151 kt. Local weather was 40 °F with a wind of 7 kt from 052°, giving a 3 kt headwind and a 7 kt crosswind.
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl took 21 seconds, averaging 2,133 fpm and reaching 162 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 1,767 ft asl to 34,986 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 111 nm, beginning about 1 mile southeast of KMSP.
Cruise was maintained at 35,000 ft asl for 93 minutes, covering 711 nm, with the aircraft positioned about 4 miles northwest of Sparta during this phase.
Descent began from 34,559 ft asl to 1,274 ft asl in 25 minutes, covering 125 nm, starting roughly 3 miles southwest of NC-74 Randolph Health Heliport Asheboro.
On final approach to runway 17 at KILM Wilmington International Airport, the descent from 1,318 ft agl to 74 ft agl took 105 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were all met: gear down, landing flap, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, speed, and wings level. The aircraft was in final flap position 3 at 5,696 ft agl and was flying 220 kt.
Landing on runway 17 was performed with a good threshold height. The threshold speed was slightly above target at 150 kt. The flare was described as excellent. Touchdown occurred 478 ft beyond the touchdown zone at 146 kt, a little fast, with a hard rate of -500 fpm. Alignment on touchdown was perfect and there was no bounce. Total landing distance was 3,960 ft, 54 % of the runway, and rollout alignment remained perfect.
Local weather at KILM was 72 °F with a wind of 7 kt from 154°, giving a 7 kt headwind and a 1 kt crosswind.
After landing, taxiing to the parking area took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 956 nm in 161 minutes and used 13,253 lbs of fuel.
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