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Departure
Lower the nose and add power to raise climb speed to 176 kt.
What happened: Climb speed was 151 kt against a target of 176 kt, running 25 kt slow through the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against the climb target of 176 kt.
Arrival
Keep the back pressure coming through the flare so the sink is fully arrested before the wheels meet the runway.
What happened: Landing g force ran high at 1.1 g through the flare, and the touchdown followed through firm at 1.1 g.
Watch for: Watch the g meter at touchdown against the normal touchdown rate band.
Between four hundred and a thousand feet you're heavy, close to the ground and still carrying flap, and speed is the margin holding all three apart. Slow here doesn't feel like anything — the aeroplane climbs, the nose is up, nothing complains — right up until a turn, a gust or a bank tightens the wing's job and the margin is already gone. The fix is rarely "fly faster", it's lowering the nose a degree and letting the speed build before the next thing you do. Pitch buys altitude, speed buys options, and at this height options are the scarcer of the two.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
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.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 5,000 ft of the approach.
Plan view — the first 5,000 ft of the 9,876 ft runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 1,001 ft touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Boeing 737-700 taxied from the parking area to runway 35L at KSMF, a movement that lasted 14 minutes and covered 2 nm.
During the departure roll on runway 35L the aircraft used 4,671 ft, representing 54 % of the runway, and lifted off at 143 kt. Local weather was 85 °F with a wind of 1 kt from 348°, giving a 1 kt headwind and zero crosswind.
Climb began one mile north of KSMF, with the airplane climbing from 973 ft asl to 39,013 ft asl, an increase of 38,040 ft achieved in 20 minutes while covering 133 nm.
Level cruise commenced three miles southeast of Coarsegold, lasting 109 minutes and encompassing 863 nm.
Descent started 41 miles southeast of Ensenada Blanca, descending from 38,999 ft asl to 14,999 ft asl, a loss of 24,000 ft over 16 minutes and 117 nm.
A second cruise segment began ten miles east of MM24 Punta Pescadero, lasting 2 minutes and covering 9 nm.
The next descent began six miles north of MMPL Punta Colorada Airport, dropping from 14,865 ft asl to 1,637 ft asl, a reduction of 13,227 ft in 13 minutes across 53 nm.
Final approach to runway 34 at MMSD descended from 1,336 ft agl to 64 ft agl in 104 seconds, and the aircraft scored on the stabilisation gates.
Landing on runway 34, whose length is 9,850 ft, occurred with a threshold speed of 129 kt. Touchdown was recorded 974 ft from the threshold at 125 kt and a vertical rate of minus 152 fpm; alignment was very good. Local conditions were 80 °F with a wind of 1 kt from 320°, providing a 1 kt headwind and 1 kt crosswind.
Total landing distance measured 2,906 ft, representing 30 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
After landing, the aircraft taxied to the parking area in 5 minutes, covering less than 1 nm.
Overall, the flight covered 1,183 nm, required 177 minutes, and consumed 14,529 lbs of fuel.
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