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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 104 kt with 5.9° 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 580 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,345 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,300 fpm on average to 580 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 2,110 m runway.
Rolled from 112 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 2.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.8 m right. Airborne 29 % 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.
The final from 4 nm.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
High from 3.1 nm, where the final began, to 0.3 nm (up to 1,020 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.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 1,495 m left of the centreline at 3.1 nm, then inside it from 1.2 to 0.5 nm, then drifted 24 m left between 0.5 and 0.2 nm, then inside the band from 0.2 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 32 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 3.1 nm, where the final began, to 1.8 nm, then fast to 0.4 nm (up to +24 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
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
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 2° of crab to hold the centreline at 89 kt. Touched down with the nose 3° into wind, wings level.
Wind 074° at 7 kt · 6 kt head · 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 88 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 9 s, an average deceleration of 0.37 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 1,165 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 57 ft, close to the 50 ft target. Touched down 548 m in, 243 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 1,165 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 580 fpm at 56 ft to 190 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 1.3° 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 1,165 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 1.8 m right of the centreline and drifted to 5.2 m right 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 arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
Touched down 548 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the Beechcraft King Air 350 taxiing from the parking area to the runway at MMMT Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos International Airport, a process that took approximately 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 19, with a takeoff distance of 512 meters, which accounted for 24% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 105 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 30°C temperature and winds of 5 knots at 30°. The crosswind was minimal at 1 knot, while the tailwind was 5 knots. The enroute climb started overhead MMMT Minatitlán/Coatzacoalcos International Airport, with the aircraft ascending from 635 feet above sea level to 8,909 feet above sea level, a total increase of 8,273 feet in just 5 minutes, covering a distance of 12 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise began 5 miles north of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, and lasted for 82 minutes, during which the aircraft covered a distance of 223 nautical miles. The enroute descent started 14 miles northeast of Frontera Corozal, Mexico, and involved a descent from 9,291 feet above sea level to 1,548 feet above sea level, a decrease of 7,743 feet in 10 minutes, covering a distance of 36 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 04 at MGLL La Libertad Airport was made from the southwest, with the aircraft heading at 48.0° at 1 nautical mile and 921 feet above ground level. The landing on runway 04 was successful, with the touchdown point being 117 meters beyond the touchdown zone. The touchdown speed was 89 knots, which was good, and the touchdown rate was also good at -189 feet per minute. The runway touchdown alignment was very good.
The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 33°C temperature and winds of 7 knots at 74°. The crosswind was 4 knots, while the headwind was 6 knots. The total landing distance was 750 meters, which accounted for 64% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was also very good. The total flight distance was 274 nautical miles, taking a total of 79 minutes, and the aircraft used 503 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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