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Monitor your speed
See Enroute Climb
Below 10,000 ft you are typically limited to 250 kt indicated (a US rule that much of the world mirrors in some form, though not universally). This forces a deceleration around 10,000 ft whether the profile wants one or not, so plan for it rather than discovering it.
Start to finish · 15 stages, 14 in the score
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 154 kt, on the 154 kt target, and lifted off at 160 kt 2.6 s later, the nose coming up at 3.5° a second. Climb 3 averaged 177 kt, 7 kt under its 184 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 972 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 669 m of runway left; gear up at 95 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,130 fpm on average to 972 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 2,695 m runway.
Rolled from the start of the runway, drifted left of the centreline, 2.2 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.2 m left. Airborne 63 % 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 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 80 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, 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 14× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 28 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 36 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 22 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between +4 kt and +9 kt on the approach speed of 144 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
Perfect landing flare
Little crosswind (1 kt): nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
Wind 090° at 8 kt · 8 kt head · 1 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 149 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 49 s, an average deceleration of 0.13 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 1,620 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 46 ft, close to the 50 ft target; began the flare at 14 ft. Touched down 435 m in, 130 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 1,620 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 620 fpm at the flare to 110 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 first 1,620 m of the 3,655 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 2.2 m right of the centreline, and stayed within 2.2 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.
The 435 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-900 taxied from the parking area to runway 27 at Dushanbe Airport, a movement that lasted 12 minutes and covered 2 nm.
The aircraft commenced its departure roll on runway 27 at Dushanbe Airport, achieving a takeoff distance of 1,696 m, 63 % of runway, and lifting off at 160 kt. Local weather was temperature 28 °C, wind 3 kt at 100 °, with a crosswind of 1 kt and a tailwind of 3 kt.
Climb began overhead Dushanbe, ascending from 3,586 ft asl to 36,123 ft asl, an increase of 32,537 ft completed in 26 minutes while covering 187 nm.
The first level cruise started 18 miles south west of Ashkasham, Badakhshan, Afghanistan, lasting 15 minutes and encompassing 120 nm.
Descent commenced overhead Saidu Sharif Airport (OPSS), descending from 36,342 ft asl to 3,670 ft asl, a loss of 32,673 ft achieved in 26 minutes over 136 nm.
A subsequent level cruise began 3 miles south west of Sanjwal Airport (OPSA), lasting 4 minutes and covering 11 nm.
The final approach to runway 10R at Islamabad International Airport (OPIS) was executed from the west on a heading of 102.0°, at 4 nm and 1,260 ft agl.
Landing on runway 10R, which is 3,655 m long, occurred with a threshold speed of 150 kt. Touchdown was recorded at 435 m down the runway, at a speed of 148 kt, and a vertical speed of minus 188 fpm. Runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The total landing distance measured 1,545 m, 42 % of runway, and rollout alignment was perfect.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area, a movement that took 2 minutes and covered less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 464 nm, required 85 minutes of flight time, and consumed 4,333 kg of fuel.
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