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Settle the descent rate
See Arrival Approach
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.
Read more in The Stabilised ApproachStart to finish · 16 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.
Lifted off at 53 kt with 3.4° of pitch. Climb 3 held close to its 69 kt target, at 64 kt on average.
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 759 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 2,609 m of runway left; then climbing at 840 fpm on average to 759 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 3,093 m runway.
Rolled from 54 m in, drifted right of the centreline, 4.1 m at the widest, and lifted off 3.5 m right. Airborne 8 % 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.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 300 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 300 ft gate: sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed and wings more than 10° from level.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, where the final began, 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 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 0.6 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 100 ft above 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 11× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 0.6 nm, never more than 34 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 30 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band all the way, between −8 kt and +7 kt on the approach speed of 60 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
Excellent landing flare. It lost 4.0 points, for the nose going up and down 4 times.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 1° right of the track, 2° of bank.
Wind 270° at 4 kt · 4 kt tail · 0 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 52 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 15 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 1,431 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 16 ft, 80 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 6 ft, 44 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 200 m in, 105 m short of 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 1,431 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 370 fpm at the flare to 70 fpm at 3 ft, then back up to 220 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 5.7° 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 1,431 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 12 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 3.2 m left by the end of 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 200 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.23 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
Departing from Punta Cana International Airport, the Cessna 152 began its takeoff roll on runway 27, accelerating to a liftoff speed of 53 kt within 290 meters, which represented 9% of the runway's length. The aircraft then transitioned into a steady climb, ascending from 817 feet above sea level to 2,564 feet in just 3 minutes, covering a distance of 4 nautical miles. This initial climb phase was completed overhead the airport, marking the beginning of the enroute segment.
The aircraft continued to climb to a cruise altitude of 3,857 feet, where it maintained a steady heading for 40 minutes, covering a distance of 74 nautical miles. The cruise phase was punctuated by a series of descents, with the first occurring 1 mile north of Moca, Puerto Rico, where the aircraft descended from 3,857 feet to 2,913 feet in 2 minutes, covering 3 nautical miles. The subsequent level cruise phase, which lasted 2 minutes, was followed by another descent, this time from 3,149 feet to 760 feet in 3 minutes, covering 6 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 09 at Eugenio Maria De Hostos Airport was initiated from a distance of 1 nautical mile, with the aircraft descending from 747 feet above ground level.
The Cessna 152 touched down on runway 09 at a speed of 40 kt, with a touchdown distance of 288 meters, representing 39% of the runway's length. The touchdown rate was an impressive -86 feet per minute, indicating a smooth and controlled landing. However, the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centerline, and the runway rollout alignment also showed a minor deviation. The total landing distance was 591 meters, and the aircraft used 18 kilograms of fuel for the entire flight, which covered a distance of 92 nautical miles and lasted 52 minutes.
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