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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 0.9° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 3° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Arrival
Make one smooth continuous pitch input through the flare rather than chasing the runway with the elevator.
What happened: The flare was pumped, with pitch reversing direction several times on the way down instead of one smooth input.
Watch for: Watch the pitch attitude trend through the flare, aiming for a single steady rise through 2.7° with no reversals.
See Arrival Landing
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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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.
At the 1,000 ft gate: no landing flap set, sink rate above what the glideslope needed and off the centreline.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,071 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 751 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The flight began with the aircraft, a Britten Norman Maritime Defender, taxiing from the parking area to the runway at YBCS Cairns International Airport. This process took approximately 2 minutes and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The aircraft then departed from runway 15, with a takeoff distance of 535 meters, which accounted for 17% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 98 knots.
As the aircraft took to the skies, it encountered local weather conditions of 25°C temperature and a wind speed of 19 knots at 160 degrees. The crosswind was minimal at 1 knot, while the headwind was 19 knots. The enroute climb began overhead Cairns North, with the aircraft ascending from 1,004 feet above sea level to 6,016 feet above sea level, a total increase of 5,012 feet in 6 minutes, covering a distance of 10 nautical miles.
The enroute level cruise started 2 miles north of Aloomba and lasted for 124 minutes, covering a distance of 244 nautical miles. The aircraft then began its enroute descent 20 miles east of Collinsville, descending from 6,161 feet above sea level to 1,805 feet above sea level, a total decrease of 4,356 feet in 7 minutes, covering a distance of 16 nautical miles.
The final approach to runway 11 at YBPN Proserpine Whitsunday Coast Airport was made from the west, with the aircraft heading 112.0 degrees at 4 nautical miles and 1,723 feet above ground level. The landing was executed on runway 11, which had a length of 2,071 meters. The threshold height was slightly above the target, while the threshold speed was well above the target at 83 knots.
The touchdown point was 311 meters beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 66 knots and a touchdown rate of -173 feet per minute, both of which were good. The runway touchdown alignment was very good, and the runway rollout alignment was perfect. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were 18°C temperature and a wind speed of 8 knots at 126 degrees, with a crosswind of 2 knots and a headwind of 8 knots.
The total landing distance was 885 meters, which accounted for 43% of the runway. The taxiing from the runway to the parking area took approximately 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 276 nautical miles, with a total flight time of 145 minutes and a fuel consumption of 155 kilograms.
The Boeing 737-800 entered the final approach to runway 27 at YMML Melbourne International Airport from the east on a heading of 274.0° at 4 nm and 1,281 ft agl. At the 1,000 ft gate the approach was assessed as stabilised, with gear, flaps, sink rate, glideslope and centreline all within limits.
During the threshold and flare the aircraft maintained a good threshold height, while the threshold speed was slightly above target at 147 kt. The flare resulted in touchdown 140 m beyond the touchdown zone, with a touchdown speed of 138 kt that was a little fast.
Touchdown occurred with a vertical rate of -174 fpm and the wheel track was slightly misaligned by 6.4 m from the centreline. The total landing distance measured 1,426 m, representing 62 % of the 2,283 m runway length.
Rollout alignment was very good and the aircraft decelerated within the remaining runway distance without deviation.
The high threshold and touchdown speeds should be trimmed to meet target values, and centreline alignment can be tightened to reduce the 6.4 m offset. Maintaining these adjustments will help preserve the strong overall score of 96.8 %.
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