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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Arrival
Be established on the glideslope by the gate, and take the power back earlier on final so the height and the speed come back together. Do not push down for the height: that only adds speed.
What happened: The approach was off the glideslope at the gate, and the aircraft then crossed the threshold at 85 ft agl, 35 ft agl above the 50 ft agl target, and at 131 kt, 14 kt over the 117 kt threshold speed. High and fast together is energy the runway has to absorb, and this touchdown came 354 m beyond the aim point.
Watch for: Glideslope indication at the gate, then airspeed: 117 kt on short final
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.
Rotated at 108 kt, on the 109 kt target, and lifted off at 124 kt 3.1 s later, the nose coming up at 1.8° a second. Climb 3 averaged 170 kt, 8 kt under its 178 kt target.
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 dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. 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 914 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 129 m of runway left; gear up at 85 ft, inside the 400 ft that gets full marks; then climbing at 2,280 fpm on average to 914 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 gear-up ring is coloured by its mark. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,218 m runway.
Rolled from 92 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 2.6 m at the widest, and lifted off 2.7 m left. Airborne 62 % 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. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed more than 29 kt above the approach speed of 117 kt.
At the 500 ft gate: gear still up, sink rate more than 600 fpm beyond what the glideslope needed, glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 18 kt above the approach speed of 117 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: fast all the way, gear up until 0.8 nm, high from 2.8 nm, right of the centreline from 1.9 nm and sinking too fast from 0.9 nm 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 1° band in green.
On the glideslope from 4 nm to 2.8 nm, then high to the threshold (up to 520 ft over).
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 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band from 4 nm to 1.9 nm, then 72 m right of it from 1.9 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 29 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 18 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +71 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
The flare mostly held the target profile. The flare began at 60 ft agl above the runway, higher than this aircraft wants. Touchdown was 811 m past the threshold. Hold the aim point and let the runway come to you rather than anticipating the flare.
Calm: nothing to correct for. Touched down straight, wings level.
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 107 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 35 s, an average deceleration of 0.12 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 1,862 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 84 ft, 34 ft above the 50 ft target; began the flare high, at 60 ft; ballooned 4 ft from 6 ft. Touched down 811 m in, 507 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 1,862 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.
From the flare the descent stopped and turned into a climb of 140 fpm before coming down at 350 fpm to touch. The nose came up 6.3° 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 first 1,862 m of the 2,222 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 6 m left of the centreline, and stayed about there down the rollout, 7.1 m left at the widest.
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.
Touched down 811 m past the threshold — beyond the full-score zone. The 354 fpm arrival was firm.
The rest of the report
The Bombardier Challenger 350 departed from runway 31 at KTMB Miami Executive Airport. The take-off roll used 761 m, which was 62 % of the runway, and rotation occurred at 108 kt. Local weather was 28 °C with wind 0 kt from 135° (crosswind 0 kt, headwind 0 kt).
Initial climb to 1,000 ft agl lasted 22 seconds, averaging 2,137 fpm and reaching 178 kt at the top of the climb. The aircraft then climbed from 982 ft asl to 42,685 ft asl in 18 minutes, covering 105 nm and passing overhead The Hammocks. Cruise was level at 43,000 ft asl for 76 minutes, covering 591 nm, beginning 9 miles south of FD51 Summerland Key Cove Airport. Descent began from 43,471 ft asl to 1,312 ft asl in 35 minutes, covering 184 nm, starting 3 miles south-west of Campeche, with a brief level-off at 3,000 ft asl.
Final approach to runway 31 at MMCE Ciudad del Carmen International Airport started from 1,302 ft agl and descended to 115 ft agl in 83 seconds. Stabilisation checks at 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway were met for landing flap and wings level; they were not met for gear down, sink rate, glideslope, centreline, and speed. The landing gear was lowered at 656 ft agl at 164 kt, and final flap position 3 was selected at 848 ft agl at 193 kt.
Landing occurred on runway 31 (runway length 2,222 m). The threshold height at 85 ft agl was significantly above target and the threshold speed was well above target at 131 kt. The flare was described as very good, starting early. Touchdown was 384 m beyond the touchdown zone, at 105 kt, with a firm rate of minus 354 fpm. The touchdown point was slightly misaligned, 6.0 m off the centreline. No bounce occurred. Total landing distance was 1,772 m, 80 % of the runway, and rollout alignment was very good.
Taxiing from the runway to parking took 1 minute and covered less than 1 nm. The total flight covered 889 nm in 136 minutes and used 1,865 kg of fuel. Local weather at landing was 29 °C.
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