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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 110 kt with 3.6° of pitch.
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 998 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 557 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,650 fpm on average to 998 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 shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,459 m runway.
Rolled from 60 m in, drifted 1.6 m right of the centreline and was back on it to lift off. Airborne 47 % 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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and glideslope more than 2° off the runway's 3°.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 1.7 nm, about 730 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 1,000 ft gate and before the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the sink rate.
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 2° band in green.
High from 4 nm to 2.7 nm (up to 1,160 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, 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 21× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 4 nm, never more than 18 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 49 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 29 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −1 kt and +44 kt on the approach speed of 98 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
Very good landing flare
3 kt across from the left, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 84 kt. Touched down straight - the crab taken out before the wheels touched, wings level.
Wind 030° at 9 kt · 8 kt tail · 3 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 95 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 42 s, an average deceleration of 0.08 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 1,504 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 13 ft, 37 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 466 m in, 161 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 1,504 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 11 ft to 130 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.8° 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 full 1,504 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.6 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 466 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.15 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Cockspur PH100, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at Key West International Airport, taking 12 minutes and covering a distance of 2 nautical miles. The departure roll took place on runway 27, with the aircraft taking off after covering 48% of the runway's length. The takeoff distance was 699 meters, and the liftoff speed was 110 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 25°C temperature and a 10-knot headwind at 270°. The climb started overhead Key West, Florida, and continued for 26 minutes, covering a distance of 125 nautical miles. During this time, the aircraft ascended from 1,073 feet above sea level to 40,934 feet above sea level, an increase of 39,861 feet.
The enroute level cruise began 3 miles southwest of Marti, Cuba, and lasted for 34 minutes, covering a distance of 716 nautical miles. The aircraft then started its descent 87 miles north of Isla Grande, Panama, and descended from 40,985 feet above sea level to 2,138 feet above sea level, a decrease of 38,847 feet, in 22 minutes and covering 123 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 19 at Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport took place from the north, with the aircraft heading 184.0° at 3 nautical miles and 2,081 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 19 was successful, with the aircraft touching down at a speed of 84 knots and a touchdown rate of -155 feet per minute. The touchdown distance was 464 meters, and the runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 31°C temperature and a 9-knot wind at 30°, with a crosswind of 4 knots and a tailwind of 8 knots. The total landing distance was 964 meters, which was 64% of the runway's length. The runway rollout alignment was perfect, and the aircraft taxied to the parking area from the runway in 2 minutes, covering less than 1 nautical mile.
In total, the flight covered a distance of 971 nautical miles, took 92 minutes, and used 802 kilograms of fuel.
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